Archive for April 2010

Today we are going to explain how to load an external XML data with Flash and parse it in a List Component. You need to have Flash CS3, NotePad and some patience.

Open NotePad or a similar program that can save in ASCII format and create a file news.xml. In this file add the content you have bellow. Please feel free to edit and customize as per your needs. We use the UTF-8 encoding to be able to display special chars that are not available in english alphabet. Some of this languages are spanish, german, french, kirilik, romanian, hunagarian, etc (À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Æ, Ç, Ê, Ë, Ð, Ñ, Ó, etc)

We are just two days from the Creative Suite 5 public debut. Yesterday afternoon, Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO shared a few insights to this new release on the Adobe blog. He also shared his views on Apple's revised SDK license and what it means to millions of Flash developers.

Highlights on the new features of CS5:

• Social Computing Innovation: Allowing closer team collaboration within the Creative Suite tools
• Cloud and client Innovation: New cloud-based services such as Omniture for optimizing content and apps to drive greater revenue
• Multiscreen features: Enabling authoring for upcoming release of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 and making it easier for developers to target multiple devices and form factors

On March 24 the biggest online and print publishing software giant Adobe announced biggest ever Creative Suite product launch on April 12th. Which means new versions of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator and the rest will have their features unveiled in full and all of us who are bursting at the seams to tell you how great they are can finally break our silence!

Adobe are preparing a special online event for the launch day where you can catch exclusive presentations from top evangelists and those closest to the new products. You can sign up via the dedicated countdown site (pictured) found at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ We can’t say any more than that really, but would encourage your comments on the pending release and whether there are any specific features you’d hope to see…

FlashJuggler will have details of the new Web Premium family of products and those synonymous with web design - primarily Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks and Photoshop so watch out for that when it hits shelves on May 6th.