RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS 3 and Flex framework

2007-04-04 Thread David Mendels
Hello, I am not sure I understand your question perfectly. If you are asking: Will I be able to create components in Flash CS3 and then use them inside a Flex application?, then answer is YES. We are working on some things that will make this much easier, in the relatively near term. -David

RE: [Flashcoders] is flash still alive?

2007-03-13 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Flash is booming. Flash and Flex complement each other and have helped expand the community to new folks, not Flex has not replaced Flash. Rumor has it that a major new release of the Flash authoring tool is due soon: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/03/05/adobe-confirms-cs3-

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex + web services Was: Remove elements from Array

2006-12-23 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Flex can consume Web Services without FDS. Please let me know who you spoke with Rakos so I can make sure to fix this miscommunication. Regards, David Adobe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seth Caldwell Sent: Saturday, December

[Flashcoders] RE: [flexcoders] Adobe at IBC

2006-09-02 Thread David Mendels
Hi, I can't say off the top of my head, but we do have a booth there and there will be folks both from Adobe Europe and from HQ. I expect our main representation will be from teams associated with our video products: Flash Media Server, Video Production Suite, and of course, Flash authoring as

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Flash 9 - Speed Freak

2006-06-30 Thread David Mendels
Nicolas, Zarate, Did you file bugs for these in the beta period? If not, please send specifics of the problems you are having and I will forward to the team. -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Cannasse Sent: Friday,

RE: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex 2 and Flash 9 Press Releases

2006-06-30 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Expect a post on the Flex team blog ot Matt's blog in the near term. The team is hoping to provide some roadmap info on this as soon as possible. Bookmark www.flex.org and/or use the link to the Flex blog aggregator at the upper right of that page (which is really just a smart search on

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE

2006-05-23 Thread David Mendels
Hello, Let me try to address a few questions on this thread: If I'm wrong, please point me to the documentation, FAQs, etc. from Adobe that clearly explain the diferences between Flex IDE and Flash IDE, or details about how to integrate Flex into my workflow. We have an article on this

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE

2006-05-23 Thread David Mendels
/ Regards, David Adobe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mendels Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:28 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE Hello, Let me try to address a few questions

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash to jpg

2006-04-18 Thread David Mendels
Hello, This might help: http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/more-fun-with-image-formats-in-as3.htm l -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Anzaldo Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 9:39 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex2 Project Conversion

2006-03-14 Thread David Mendels
Hi, I am from Adobe, let me give some perspective. A) It is always risky to build on a beta. I feel quite confident in where we are and hitting our schedule, but I have to be realistic that there is always some risk. You need to judge your tolerence for risk. B) There has been an API scrub

RE: [Flashcoders] FF Seattle Report

2006-03-06 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Lots of stuff in this email, but I will just respond to this: Flex takes what was getting good about AS and implements it in a retardedly expensive solution that is of little interest to a whole bunch of us. The Flex 2 SDK is free. Hard to call that expensive. Flex Builder 2 is under

RE: [Flashcoders] How does goowy do it? (HTML in Flash)

2006-03-04 Thread David Mendels
Hello, I think they might be using a variation on this idea (but I am not sure): http://coenraets.com/viewarticle.jsp?articleId=95 _David Adobe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Miguel M. Tayag Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006

RE: [Flashcoders] image saving

2006-02-13 Thread David Mendels
Hello, http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/more-fun-with-image-formats-in-as3.htm l -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of syam s Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] image

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex Pricing

2006-02-12 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Go to http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/ Watch the videos in the Learn More column. Download the beta. The beta includes the tool (Flex Builder) and the standalone compiler and the entire Flex Framework. The server is an optional additional download. Regards, David

RE: [Flashcoders] Player Version Penetration -- Comparison Stats

2006-02-01 Thread David Mendels
Hi, There are several factors at work here: A) The primary thing that drives adoption of a new version of a Flash Player is content that requires that Player being deployed. I think that the dramatic advances in what is possible in Flash Player 8 -- especially the improved video -- led more

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Site Statistics RIA

2006-01-30 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Key parts of the UI of Google Analytics (formally Urchin) are Flash. -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Aebig Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:10 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex expires... what then?

2006-01-22 Thread David Mendels
Hi, There will be a new public beta pretty soon (end of month? Beginning of next month? Somewhere around there.) -David Adobe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matti bar zeev Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:18 AM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex 2.0 Tree control dataprovider problem.

2005-12-23 Thread David Mendels
Hi, You asked: One last thing, is this the place to ask these questions, or is there a flex 1/2 group like this too? Yes, it is called FlexCoders. Subscribe info is here: http://www.flexcoders.org/index.html -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] Why Flex?

2005-10-28 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Partly right :) The plan has always been to support AS3 in both Flash authoring and Flex and that is still true. At one point we were looking stretching to get AS3 in Flash Player 8 and Flash Professional 8, but we realized that was a *bad* idea...we just couldn't do it with the quality and

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

2005-10-27 Thread David Mendels
Hi, It depends on what you are building. A web site is a pretty broad category. For the Flash interactive we use on the home page of Macromedia.com, or for site like http://www.leoburnett.ca/ or for the streaming video on the home page of Oprah.com, I would expect a creative team to build it

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Andreas's info is dated...there is a lot of new news this week that changes much of what he said. Flex is a product line from Macromedia for building applications that run in the Flash Player. It includes a framework, an integrated development environment, and a server. (The server is

RE: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex 2andFlash9 :communicationor cacophony ?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Hi, This is a misunderstanding. Flex Enterprise Services includes the new AMF gateway but I am sure the folks building OpenAMF or RubyAMF or etc etc will at some point implement the new version. We have nothing really against the open source projects. We are adding a lot of functionality,

RE: [Flashcoders] What is Flex?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Hi, With regards the website I am about to develop, it will require user registration, progress monitoring and be comprised primarily of interactive learning activities. Does this sound like something Flex would be better suited for than just Flash itself? A) Make sure you keep in

RE: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex 2andFlash9:communicationor cacophony ?

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
to the situatuion. Thanks Hank On 10/19/05, David Mendels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a misunderstanding. Flex Enterprise Services includes the new AMF gateway but I am sure the folks building OpenAMF or RubyAMF or etc etc will at some point implement the new version. We have

RE: [Flashcoders] Need for the Flex Server

2005-10-19 Thread David Mendels
Hi Hank, That is me. We must have miscommunicated here somehow, but I am not sure what you are referring to. Mike Chambers is right on. -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005