M Studio Labs

Adobe just released a couple of new products:

Adobe Flash Builder 4
Formerly Flex Builder, this is Adobe’s IDE — offered as a stand-alone version or a plug-in for Eclipse. If you just want the new SDK, you can get it here.

Adobe Flash Catalyst
Allows designers to add functionality to their interfaces after creating them in Photoshop or Illustrator. Catalyst files are then handed off to developers who add additional functionality. Personally, it seems like this creates more work for everyone: designers now have a new tool to learn, and more to do on top of the static design. Developers have more to do in rewriting Catalyst code. Why not let the designers design and developers develop?

Just ran into this today. I was compiling an AIR application and previewing it in AIR Debug Launcher and got the following error:

“invalid application descriptor: descriptor version does not match runtime version”

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De MonsterDebugger is an incredible new AIR app from De Monsters which allows you to debug AS3 Actionscript/Flex projects on the fly. With it, you can trace output statements, view your app’s tree structure, live-edit code and test methods.
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This sounds like a great free event, put on by flex.actionscript.it. The event date is conveniently set one day after FITC Amsterdam ends, so you won’t miss out on anything. Topics include:

• Flex Design Patterns
• Cairngorm vs Pure MVC
• Adobe AIR
• Tools (FDT/Ant)
• Flex integration with ZendAMF

For more information, check out event details here.

This is an error just about everyone runs into when loading data across a domain or testing locally. There are a couple of workarounds, which I’ll describe in detail in this post…
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