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.
I had thought that that the updater for Flash Builder 4.0 wasn’t working out for me via Eclipse or so I assumed. While I was taking Seb Lee Delisle’s video series on Papervision 3D 2 training on lynda.com I noticed that creating a new Actionscript project did not include the Flex 4.1 SDK. Then I thought “Wasn’t Flash Player 10.1 released recently?”
So after playing around with Eclipse and scouring the web, I landed on insideRIA and decided that the manual update was my best bet. But that did not pan out since the the manual update failed.
So finally by checking the Adobe Flex Support page, I had to pay attention to “Eclipse plug-in Users” heading instead of “Stand-alone Users.” Plugin users have to uninstall their plugin and reinstall the new plugin. BTW, by default, the stand-alone is offered so just scroll down the combo box to choose the Eclipse Plugin. (See screen shot below.)
Alas, this is part of my learning process of migrating as a Flash developer from the Flash IDE with FlashDevelop to Flash Builder.
So if anyone who is wondering why Flash Builder hasn’t updated on their eclipse build, check it out here at adobe.com.
DJ
Select the Eclipse Plugin in the dropdown box.
I was expecting this to come around in a few days, but I suppose that Adobe was so giddy with excitement that they put out Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst on Adobe labs.
There is soooo much buzz around the Flash community about this, maybe as big as when flash video was announced way back.
One interesting site that Mike Chambers pointed out was scalenine which already provided some skins for use with Flex.
I’ve got to get my hands dirty on this…
DJ
Found out from various blogs (flashblog & Duane’s world) that Flex Builder will now become “Flash Builder”. It is a more appropriate name for flash platform development.
