Regarding Jason's question, NO. As yet Flash CS3 has no AS3 classes/components for WebService or Remoting. And no where have I seen any promised. (I would like to see them, so if anyone from Adobe is on this list and might like to tell us that there one day will be Flash CS3 AS3 Data Components, please chime in :-)
If you would like to see the inventory of what we have, here is the top level link for livedocs for Flash CS3: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm And here is the top level for the Flash CS3 "ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference": http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/index.html Regarding "integrate parts of the flex framework components into flash", as Claus points out, there are issues. I am confident that if it were straight forward, Adobe would have done it for the Flash CS3 AS3 components. Though this thread suggests that some of us consider the Flash CS3 AS3 component set to be incomplete, one goal that Adobe did achieve was keeping them as lightweight as possible. As we all know, Flex is not lightweight. There is the devil's bargain in component development. What makes Flex Flex is that it is not Flash. And the fact that the Flash CS3 AS3 components are so lightweight really highlights this. fwiw ... Even going the easier route of integrating Flash AS3 content in to Flex is a little involved. Adobe has put up on labs the "Adobe Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash CS3". The thumbnail description is "Allows you to easily convert Flash content into Flex components providing seamless integration between Flash CS3 and Flex." But it is a one way street, Flash into Flex only. Details here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Component_Kit_for_Flash_CS3 Regarding Austin's earlier statement about possible "time factor" considerations, I assume that this is a hypothesis on Austin's part. Unless Austin knows something that I don't know I am sticking with my firsthand understanding that "The decision to not rev all Flash 8 components up to AS3 was a conscious business decision." No issues regarding "time factors". Just priorities. I.e. conscious strategic business decisions. I do totally concur with Austin that "Most new releases of a software don't remove functionality". And Adobe might just say "we did not remove any of the AS2 components ..." But because AS2 and AS3 logic live in separate virtual machines, were anyone from Adobe to say that they did not remove functionality, I would think them disingenuous. And please note that Grant did reply to that thread on his blog. And Grant's only reply is for us to email our requests for a comprehensive, state of the art component set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] lol. And with Flash Player 9 likely to be at "90% or so by the June study<http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2007/04/sneak_peek_at_t.cfm>" this month, it is getting safe for us to be moving on to AS3 development. I concur with Austin that "Removing something like the tree component or web services from flash 9 cs3 is a major mistake." However, I neither work for Adobe nor was I consulted when they made that (for us) fateful decision :-( Lastly, since gskinner.com and metaliq.com had teamed up<http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/07/glic_is_dead.html>in the AS2 era to deliver the mCOM components <http://metaliq.com/mcom/>, I kind of hoped that they would deliver AS3 components to fill the gap. Heck, Adobe did pay them to create the Flash CS3 AS3 components<http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/09/building_the_v3.html>. How hard would it be for them to create some more? But based on my limited conversations with Beau and others at Metaliq my sense is that this is not going to happen :-( What really slays me is that all the early reviews of these components were universally glowing. Only now that we developers are going about our work did anyone comment on the huge chunk of the component set that did not get included in the Flash CS3 AS3 components. But hey, that just get's back to Kalani's "I did not speak out" verse at the top of this thread. </rant> g _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
