FLASH PLAYER X

THURSDAY, JULY 10 2003 @ 11:32 AM

Other things came out from the keynote presented by Norm Meyrowitz. He showed us some new features expected in a future version of the Flash Authoring tool. It seems pretty clear to me that, in the future, Royale and the Flash IDE as we know it today will be two separate things. Royale will be a form-based development tool, no timeline, no drawing tools, just an interface to accommodate data and components. The Flash IDE, in the other hand, will provide added functionality to speed up production tasks.

Norm also presented some graphic stats comparing the general performance of the current version of the Flash Player (6.0.79) and the Flash Player "x" (x=7?). Improvements in general performance, and loading speed look really awesome, almost incredible: up to 10 times faster in a Mac (6 in a PC)!

Finally, Mike Chambers unveiled some of the coolest items that will be part of the DRK 4, that should be available to DevNet subscribers within two weeks.

That's all for now. I had to get back to the office, but I'll be back in the afternoon for the Film Festival.

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JEWEYJEWSTEIN

JULY 10 2003 @ 11:27 PM

A seperate tool that won't cater to code inept morons? A player that's 6 times faster you say? wo0t!

SAPHUA

JULY 11 2003 @ 06:11 AM

Wow man!

This is realy good news!

Where did you get this info from? If would realy like to be up to date with this great news!!!

Greetz,
SaphuA

DOMINICK

JULY 11 2003 @ 10:22 AM

that is great news. I am really excited. Did he say anything about the internal actionscript editor (improvements)?

OSCAR TRELLES

JULY 11 2003 @ 11:05 AM

All this information is from the Macromedia keynote presented yesterday by Norm Meyrowitz. Although he didn't say so, I'm pretty sure he was talking about Flash 7. Unfortunetly, Norm didn't show anything related to the ActionScript editor.

P T WITHINGTON

JULY 11 2003 @ 10:45 PM

If you are interested in seeing what Royale may do for you, someday, you might want to take a look at Laszlo Systems (http://www.laszlosystems.com), which lets you build XML-based internet apps with the power of a desktop app, today. [Full disclosure: I am a Laszlo employee.]

JALCIDE

JULY 23 2003 @ 09:34 PM

Great to here Macromedia is addressing performance. It sounds like we are going to get a much needed boost in code, object and perhaps xml parsing performance, but I haven't heard anything mentioned regarding the performance of the flash display 'renderer'. My dream would be if the player would leverage hardware accellerated 2d graphic calls/fills etc; open-gl on mac, direct3d on pc...this would be the most elegant solution and would perhaps not add any weight to the player as it would be using existing libs, but even if they updated the performance of transparencies, bitmaps and anti-aliasing to say...the performance of what a 1996 2d video card/computer combo could do, that would be welcome. Also, from a development standpoint it would be really nice to see the mac and pc player performance get closer together. It's a hard thing to judge due to the large number of variables in hardware and software architecture - I realize - but it still feels to me like 3 year old PC's are running flash faster than the latest model of an Apple product. (perhaps with the exception of the new G5...btw, has anyone done any performance tests on that thing in regards to flash playback?)

Regards,
James Alcide Park (Jalcide)

LEASK

AUGUST 8 2003 @ 01:22 AM

hi

ANTYKI

FEBRUARY 13 2007 @ 06:21 AM

thanks for all