Adobe releases AIR & Flex 3

[iopred]

Speaking of Air:
http://iopred.com/sundial/Sundial.air

A small little time management app that I created in half a day, was interesting to learn Flex/Air in such a small amount of time. I think Air + Flex is a really powerful combination for making applications, much more so than using Flex for the web (which all look generic and samey to me)

[Chris_Seahorn]

$300 for air?

No. AIR is free. To create an installer that recognizes you as the author (and not UNTRUSTED SOURCE) you need a CA which is the rub. You really have to see a screenshot of an untrusted AIR installer to appreciate how it impacts the dream of AIR being "free"

See this section:

Signing of AIR applications

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[iopred]

No. AIR is free. To create an installer that recognizes you as the author (and not UNTRUSTED SOURCE) you need a CA which is the rub. You really have to see a screenshot of an untrusted AIR installer to appreciate how it impacts the dream of AIR being "free"

See this section:

Signing of AIR applications

of this

True, but you only need to be signed once correct?
Also this money isn't going to Adobe, so its more of a security issue in my opinion.

[Chris_Seahorn]

I've heard all the arguments. For it or against it if the buy in is 2-300, I'm going to go with a more for my money, CD ability and no need for a CA or penetrated runtime if I'm plopping down cash.

Make AIR free and treat security the same way Zinc and the rest do (like all software...user beware and use common sense) and they would have taken the market and the runtime and AIR name would get pushed around the globe because more small time users could get apps out there that don't scare the crap out of people.


I love AIR...been with it from the start....hand crap out all the time for it....had an AIR movie in a MAX show but still think they cut off their own foot on limited OS integration (again for the sake of over the top security and with Zinc and the rest we already do things AIR can't even dream of) and the CA. Just my opinion

[Sietjp]

Found this nice tutorial if you want to use AIR with Flash CS3

http://flashthusiast.com/2008/02/25/...-cs3-what-now/

[ihoss.com]

We're having a FLEX tutorial next week here. That will be the first time I try flex

[Squize]

Really sorry to bump this, but there's something that may be useful and it doesn't really need it's own thread.

flash.system.System.gc();

Forces garbage collection ( Which lots of people seem to be having issues with ), but requires the latest F9 release.

There, that's the reason to upgrade to Flex3

Squize.

[tomsamson]

erm,it forces the garabe collector sweep run but it doesn´t change the way the gc work in as3 export,so yeah,if one has issues with stuff not getting removed at all this won´t help.
but yeah,handy if you want to affect when it runs

[lesli_felix]

Why do you have to have flex to use that class?

[renderhjs]

Why do you have to have flex to use that class?

because it´s adobe´s new favourite child? (development of flex propably faster & easier to update)

[lesli_felix]

Can't you rip it somehow? an as3 class is an as3 class, surely?