(WAS ELLIPSIS) MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 7.2

TUESDAY, JULY 27 2004 @ 11:54 AM

If you haven't upgraded to Flash MX 2004 yet, now is the time to do it. The new (and last) update to the latest major release of Flash certainly improves the whole experience of working with the IDE, especially in terms of stability and overall performance. I have been using it in a production environment for the last few weeks, and I have to say that Flash has never been better than today.

I was one of the unlucky people that for some reason had Flash crashing, compromising the stability of other applications and the system as a whole, thus causing some obvious inconveniences. I recognize that Macromedia has put a lot of effort to addressing a long list of issues that survived the first dot release of Flash MX 2004.

Among the goodies packed in this release you will find:

A stand-alone Scrollbar component.
The JSFL File API.
The EventDelegate class.
ASO Cache Cleaning Commands (available from the Exchange).

The other great aspect concerning the 7.2 update is a "beefier" documention. Although the Help panel didn't make it for the makeover, more than 2000 bugs (wrong info, typos, etc.) were fixed and more than 400 new code examples have been included in the documentation body, increasing the percentage of entries with examples from 43% to 98%. Also, the overall amount of ActionScript documentation has been increasedby 85%, and two existing chapters about working with Components have been re-written and two new ones were included, to provide information on styles and skinning. In addition to that, you will find 21 new documentation example FLA files demonstrating common
application functionality.

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