Author Archives: Krzysztof

Flex 4 SDK

By Krzysztof. March 9, 2010
Flex 4 Gumbo SDK (download) is a next major step in evolution of Flex. Lately subsequent versions of Silverlight have offered some nice features which was absent in old Flex 3, and there was a necessity for Adobe to keep up (or even take over) with it’s biggest competitor.
Flex 4 introduces a bunch of new features, in my personal opinion the most important are:
  • new set of skinnable Spark components and skinning architecture which leads to better separation between data and view
  • introducing FXG declarative syntax for defining graphics
  • two way data binding

But if you want to explore full list of changes and improvements to framework, there is a “Flex 4 features and migration guide”, which could give you more information about it.

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Flash Builder – revolution or evolution

By Krzysztof. March 8, 2010

Flash Builder

Flash Builder (which is a succesor to Flex Builder) is currently avialable in beta 2 version for some time now. Since Adobe is still postponing release date of final versions I decide not to wait any longer and try to grasp it’s new features in some application more complicated than samples provided in tutorials that could be found around the webAfter dowloading and installing application we get 60 days of evaluation period, but it can be prolonged using valid Flex 3 license number.

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