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daslicht
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December 20, 2011
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Future of Flash Builder

  • December 20, 2011
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I just read that Adobe will discontinue Flash Catalyst and the Design View in Flash builder ?
Is that TRUE ? Programatically Layout and Design uh?

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4085187#4085187

If so that would be a BIG step backwards

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    Correct answer Alex J Harui

    Yes, this is unfortunately true.

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    pbeltranl
    pbeltranl
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    December 20, 2011

    Likely you don't like read this, but lately Adobe wasted a lot of money developing superfluos things like Catalist and FB features mentioned above. Surely they have some use cases,  though they were a bad decission from a product management point of view.

    From my point of view, Flex was becoming fat. A little of exercise and effort are sometimes good. Adobe is now following the right way. Of course, things can still done better.

    daslicht
    daslichtAuthor
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    December 21, 2011

    >Design View is a very slow way to design UIs compared to writing mxml code.

    But it makes sense when you like to position elements visually absoulute and not programatically blind

    If there is no designview anymore you have to compile the App anytime to see how it looks.

    However we are out anyways bye


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    pauland
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    December 21, 2011

    I gave up using design view very quickly after I started using Flex. It seemed pointless, since I wanted control of the structure  and not have a design program try and guess the structure or me try and get the design software to nest things correctly.

    Writing the code by hand has always been a natural thing to do. HTML designers don't use WYSIWYG software to create their HTML, they write the structure themselves.

    Similarly design view is useless when dealing with dynamic interfaces adding elements programatically.

    I won't miss design view, or catalyst, but the shifts in policy are concerning.

    pbeltranl
    pbeltranl
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    December 20, 2011

    @flext from Twitter:

    Future versions of Builder will support Apache . Design View, DCD and Flash Catalyst support to be removed.

    So, DCD is also in the black list.

    I would say those are good decissions. They add some useful stuff for beginners only. On the other hand, Adobe wants to begginers move to Html5.

    daslicht
    daslichtAuthor
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    December 20, 2011

    >They add some useful stuff for beginners only.

    how dou you mean that ? which stuff do they add ?

    pbeltranl
    pbeltranl
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    December 20, 2011

    They add an API wrapper. What do you need those fetures for?

    Design View is a very slow way to design UIs compared to writing mxml code. And DCD is a big stone in the middle of the way when you need develop not trivial apps. I prefer that Adobe don't waste time and resources developing useless features and they put the focus on serius things.

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    Alex J HaruiCorrect answer
    Adobe Employee
    December 20, 2011

    Yes, this is unfortunately true.

      daslicht
      daslichtAuthor
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      December 20, 2011

      Ok than I have to say good bye and will no longer invest into Flex / Flash Builder.

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