7:27 PM PST here and yet another Adobe Labs jump here. You can download Adobe Flex Builder 3 Beta 3 from labs. You’ll need an Adobe ID first… I’m currently downloading these now and will have an update for what the changes are soon.
According to the Labs site, this is the FINAL public beta of Flex Builder 3.
7:24 PM PST. Looks like Adobe Labs really jumped the gun on this news! You can now download the Adobe Flex 3 SDK Beta 3 from the Adobe Labs site!
So there was supposed to be some big news from Adobe tonight @ 9:00 PM PST, but here it is, 7:30 PM PST, and it looks like Adobe Labs might have jumped the gun. You can download Adobe AIR Beta 3 right now!
Official Flex/AIR evangelist, Ted Patrick, has put together a simplified generated template project for Flex components (called FXWidget) in an attempt to make it easier to use flex as page-components rather than full applications. It includes the SWFObject library from Geoff Stearns and reduces the line count in the out-of-the-box index.template.html file from 108 to a mere 26. It’s far from complete, but a definite step in the right direction.
I’ve put together an extension of this library to add some more functionality and to restore the browser-history feature of flex that is included in the original template file. In my extensions, I’ve side-stepped the IE7 issues people were having in relation to loading the SWF in a script tag by loading it by preloading it through prototype.js’s Ajax.Request method and used an onComplete closure to trigger the loading of the SWF object. I have yet to add deep-linking back to the template (Flex3).
This marks my first contribution back to the Flex community, to which I hope to contribute as much as I can. My updates this site have been… well there just hasn’t been any for a while. I’ve been “heads-down” programming at my new job since December, up to my eyeballs in Flex and FDS. Things are settling down now, so I hope to have more time to share what I’ve learned.
Click here to download the Flex2 project.
Click here to see the output examples.
Good work, Ted!
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