David Jumeau's take on Web-related technologies, the Flash Platform, E-learning, and other cool stuff
Adobe has introduced their game developer tools for the Flash platform.
Scout (formerly project Monacle) gives the developer a superior profiling tool during development and optimization of flash-based content.
The Adobe Gaming SDK includes libraries for Starling, Feathers, and Away3D. It leverages usage of your target device GPU.
The Flash C/C++ compiler takes your C/C++ code to target the Flash player.
It’s pretty easy to get excited as a web developer these days.
Last Thursday, Alan Greenblatt, and Christophe Coenraets flew up from Boston to show off Adobe’s up and coming  Edge suite of creative web tools. The main take away is this: Check out:
Alan gave a brief overview of the design tools. Particularly Edge Animate, and Edge web fonts. For those who have a good background in print design, they now have more leverage to use their skills to develop modern web sites. Also, Adobe is giving access to 500 fonts to use freely for developers. This is pretty significant since the days of Arial and Helvetica.
Christophe presented Edge Reflow, Edge Code (code named: Brackets), Edge Inspect and PhoneGap Build through his sample employee directory app. (I’ve seen the Flex version, and has also done one version with Java.) Also check out the capabilities of PhoneGap via his API Explorer app.
Edge Reflow is what’s buzzing in the web development industry. It is a tool that simplifies responsive design. It is in preview stage not even in Alpha, but there is a lot of positive feedback on it. Adobe is going through further study on it on how it can interact with other responsive design frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap.
I expect Adobe will make other announcements on Dec. 11 at the live – Create the Web event (10 am PST) on Facebook.
Currently Edge Animate and Edge Code are available on the Creative Cloud.
I inadverdently zoomed in and out of my Flash timeline in Flash CS6. After scouring the internet, I found this post:
http://www.wastedpotential.com/flash-cs5-how-do-i-get-my-timeline-frames-to-zoom-out/
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to restore my timeline to its default zoom setting. I wonder if anyone in internet-land knows about this?
Cheers!
Away3D 4.0 has been released which provides integration with Starling and development with Stage3D.
Rob Bateman and the open source team also inaugurated the Away Foundation. The foundation would be supported by company sponsorship of which Adobe is a major funding partner. (I mean why not? The Away3D community has been working on this this API for 5 years now.) This would permit the development of 3D Flash enabled applications without any licensing costs, or fees.
So I decided to give Captivate 6 a go at it. I thought it would be interesting to post a screen capture of which languages and OS options were available. I thought having a 64 bit Windows option very interesting. There has not been word about a new version of the E-Learning suite. I think this has to do with the launch of the Creative Cloud and how can other Adobe software fit in. (Although I do think that obtaining a subscription to the Creative Cloud is a worthwhile upgrade $29.99 a month for owners of CS3 and up until the end of August 2012.)
