Apollo Alpha 1????????

[keyone.it]

What is happening?
Where ActionScript 3 LiveDocs resided, now Apollo 1 are now.
There is a s___load of new items in the library.
What happened, did Adobe just decide to pack everything under a new brand?

Is that stuff already supported by Flash Player 9?

[senocular]

For AS3 livedocs now you should reference
http://www.adobe.com/go/AS3LR
(and there will be a separate reference for Flash Authoring)

The APIs for Apollo are specific to Apollo and the Apollo runtime. That consists of the Flash player core classes as well as those extra classes that work with Apollo - these will not work in the Flash player used to play Flash content on the web. The new Apollo APIs are specific to Apollo itself.

Apollo is an extension of the Flash player. It is not where everything is now going to be "packed" its just another deviation from normal Flash media, much like Flex was a deviation from Flash, though Apollo is another kind of deviation; instead of being an authoring environment, its a separate playback runtime consisting of the Flash player (with extra functionality), HTML, and PDF which come together to "occasionally connected" rich desktop applications.

[keyone.it]

uhmmm.....
well, not for me: I hate frameworks, and Flex is the perfect example of what I can't stand. Having to follow someone else's logic when building applications.

I do things from scratch. Maybe takes a few more hours, but MUCH less headaches!!!

Thanks for the link!


p.s. Now I recall a friend of mine at university telling me last year that Adobe was wanting to put the PDF 3D engine into Flash, as complex data communication for the manufacturing environment is a huge market that Flash can extend to (rather than the formerly Alias Showcase or other pipeline-specific communication tool).

Though it's been quite a while since the first 3D communication tools have been released, and I yet have to understand what happens in large companies about this.