MX 2004 Components and Screens not an impact on file size

Posted on September 5, 2003 by chafic

Yesterday on Flashcoders there was some discussion about the increased file-size of the new Screens feature found in Flash 2004. I believe this will be something that some people will initially be worried about. People will wonder if Screens and Components are worth it when they bloat our precious file-size.
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MACR Stock UP UP UP!

Posted on September 4, 2003 by chafic

Has anyone noticed that Macromedia’s stock has been trading at a 52 week high and has gone up 40% in the past few weeks(1-year chart)? This is really good news for Macromedia and in turn for us (especially if you happen to own a few shares yourself). The announcement of new products must be driving this but I really wonder what else could be having such a big impact. Their stock price went up 10% alone yesterday. This makes me wonder do stock analysts actually care about a world-wide Macromedia Usergroup event?

Some things for component developers in Flash 2004

Posted on August 29, 2003 by chafic

Some of the little things that will make life easier for component developers in Flash 2004

Auto Live-Preview: As long as your component knows how to redraw itself, converting a component to an swc will give it a live preview automatically.
Meta tags: Using special Meta-tags in your class file of your component, Flash can automatically pick up the parameters rather than you needing to specify it in the component inspector (example: [Inspectable(name="Title Position",enumeration="top,bottom",defaultValue="top")])
Easy event dispatching: The component framework has built-in support for broadcasting events. All that you would have to do to is “dispatchEvent({type:”click”});” and the rest is taken care of for you. No more AsBroadcaster.initialize(this)

I’ll try to post some more when i get the chance.

Macromedia announces Flash MX 2004!

Posted on August 26, 2003 by chafic

Macromedia announced Flash MX 2004, its latest upgrade to their Flash development environment. With this release Macromedia has also announced Flash MX Professional 2004, a version of Flash specifically targeted towards professional.

Rather than re-hash everything you are going to see out today about the new product, I will highlight a few of the new additions…
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