Where can I see Catalyst demo video?
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:07 AM, rexguo123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say that Flash Catalyst (previously Thermo) will play > a key role in bridging the gap between designers and developers. > I've been looking forward to a tool like this for years > and the Catalyst demo video looks good. > > The FXG roundtrip format is a great idea too and is > similiar in thinking as Autodesk's FBX format that allows > data transfer between its suite of applications like > Motion Builder, 3DS MAX and Maya. > > .rex > > --- In [email protected], Chet Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I would be curious to find out how others view the platforms, > especially from the standpoint of external application developers, but > having been on the inside of both of these projects, here are some > points of comparison. I'm attempting to be objective here and just > point out some of the areas to consider. But since I used to work at > Sun on Java/JavaFX and now work on the Flex team at Adobe you should > filter appropriately. >> >> >> - Maturity: One of the reasons that you haven't heard much > about JavaFX to date is that it's actually not yet released. > Supposedly this will happen in the very near future, so maybe we'll > all hear more about it at that time. >> >> - Language: Although many of the underlying capabilities of > JavaFX rely on the Java SE platform, JavaFX itself is based on a new > scripting language (not Java, not JavaScript, not ActionScript, but a > new scripting language entirely). One notable differences between the > languages of JavaFX and Flex is that Flex uses MXML for its > declarative aspects, and ActionScript for the programmatic aspects. > The JavaFX language combines both of these elements, having aspects of > declarative and programmatic in the same code. >> >> - GUI capabilities: Both platforms offer GUI components, > graphics, animation, and databinding capabilities, thought the > platforms differ widely in syntax and capabilities of these different > features. >> >> - Tooling: Most of the tooling so far announced for JavaFX > are more on the code developer side; editing plugins for NetBeans, > plus export plugins for Illustrator and Photoshop (they produce PNG > files from the layers in the project). On the Flex side, there's the > FlexBuilder IDE and the in-development tools such as Flash Catalyst > for designer/developer workflows and FXG roundtrip import/export > from/to the CS tools including Catalys for the graphics tags in the > Gumbo release of the SDK. >> >> - Runtime availability: The availability of the JavaFX > runtime is basically that of the Java platform (if a user's machine > does not have the proper release of Java (I believe it will require > the latest updated 10 release), they will need to download/install > it). The availability of Flex is basically that of the Flash platform > of the appropriate version (e.g., Gumbo will run on FlashPlayer 10). >> >> Chet. >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of hworke >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:19 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [flexcoders] JavaFX and Flex how do we compare? >> >> >> Hi I just read the following news where I found that >> SUN is also coming up with their RIA technology and >> it says that it will take on AJAX and Silverlight. >> It will also have desktop runtime like AIR, I guess!!! >> SUN was also in MAX, San Francisco and there they also >> talked about it. Now I want to know how do we compare >> JavaFX and Flex? >> >> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20081118/tc_infoworld/117780 >> >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/07/javafx-javaone_1.html >> > >
