Adobe User Group - Gujarat

Adobe today announces AIR 1.0. In their words, here are how it’s important for Developers and for How it’s good for business.

For Developers:

The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. It’s for all developers like AJAX, Adobe Flex Developers and Adobe Flash Developers.

Developer Links:

• Download AIR
• Download Free Adobe AIR SDK

Business Benefits:

Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes. Click here to know more on this.

Here are other important links:

• Get AIR Applications
• Get started
• Showcase applications
• Browser vs. Desktop
• System Requirements
• AIR Developer Center
• Download AIR applications
• AIR FAQs
• AIR for AJAX Developers
• AIR for FLEX Developers
• AIR for FLASH Developers

Last month Yahoo! released version 1.1 of Yahoo! ASTRA libraries for Flash and Flex. Based on community feedback, they revised it and came up with a maintenance release as 1.1.1. Hence there are no new components but many fixes to minor bugs. Here are release notes from Josh Tynjala directly:

AlertManager (Flash)

• Bug fix: Alert dialog lost focus if the user selected the text and then hit the tab key.

Charts (Flash)

• Improved animation and invalidation of markers.
• Bug fix: Setting axis maximum less than the value of an origin-based marker (column, bar) hides the marker.
• Bug fix: With large data sets, line charts are displayed offset from the left, which hides some data on the right
• Bug fix: Axis displays improperly when all items have the same value.
• Bug fix: Infinite loop when calculating minimum and maximum values in some cases.
• Bug fix: PieChart displays the wrong category when values are primitive and equal.

MenuBar (Flash)

• Bug fix: Selected menubar button lost focus if it was toggled very quickly with keyboard shortcuts.
• Bug fix: Skin conflicts between Menu and MenuBar.

TabBar (Flash)

• Bug fix: Styles like textFormat are not passed through to tabs.
• Bug fix: focusIndex setter tries to access buttons before they are created.

AutoCompleteManager (Flex)

• New events
• Added API for adjusting minimum disk space requirements
• Bug fix: caret bug when changing selection of completion dropdown
• Bug fix: itemToLabel bug on certain types of entries
• Bug fix: loopSelection quirkiness

This updated version is available on Yahoo! Flash Developer Center as following:

• Download ASTRA Flash components (1.1.1)
• Download ASTRA Flex components (1.1.1)

Via - http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2008/02/20/announcing-astra-111/

Today adobe announces new version of Adobe Director 11. Also with this new product release, they also announced a new release for shockwave player also.

Here are the Top features in Director 11:

• Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats
• Native 3D rendering with DirectX 9 support
• Advanced physics with the included AGEIA™ PhysX™ engine
• Support for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software and video created with Flash
• Unicode support, including multimode publishing
• Enhanced text rendering engine
• Enhanced user interface
• Enhanced Script Browser and full JavaScript support
• Bitmap filters
• Xtra plug-ins

Useful Links:

1. Adobe Director 11 Homepage
2. Detailed Features list for Director 11
3. Pre-order Director 11
4. Pre-order upgrade to Director 11

We are using FlashDevelop as our AS3 code in our daily coding since a long time at Avinashi.

FlashDevelop is came up with a new Beta 6 release for version 3 with obviously some cool features and some bug-fixes. These features are as following:

Changes:

• General UI and localization fixes and improvements
• New Bookmarks panel added for an overview of all your open documents bookmarks
• Captures Flash CS3 compiler errors in FD results panel when CS3 is called from FD
• Contextual generators (Ctrl+Shift+1) for getter/setter, event listeners, override methods, interface implementation, unknown var/method
• First class SWC integration in AS3 projects
• New in templates, set package of new project. Creates the main class with the package you provide
• You can run your project in your web browser instead of FD or external player
• Less aggressive and generally smarter completion
• Improved Flex Compiler support
• Improved Flash CS3 support

Important:

• Java 1.6+ is required for the Flex compiler (ActionScript 3).
• The Flex SDK (2 or 3) is required for ActionScript 3 development if you don’t use Flash CS3.
• Backup your customized user files and uninstall any previous versions of FlashDevelop 3.0.0.

Full Release Notes can be found here.

Download FlashDevelop 3.0.0 Beta 6 (Built from rev. 2133)

And obviously if that seems a nice editor for Flash CS3 developers, you should donate too J

Friends,

Thanks for giving your valuable time to the meeting for the general discussion about structure of user group and other discussions.  I will post photographs soon over here and you must enjoy the food.

I am glad to announce following structure of a group:

• Ashvin Savani - Group Manager and Group site admin
• Jignesh Dodiya - Backup Group Manager and Managing group users
• Naresh Khokhaneshiya - Finding out hot topic for meeting(s)
• Alpesh Vaghasiya - Group promotion and technical reading
• Paresh Khatri - Group promotion and Group site designing
• Mehul Katrodiya - Accounting / Administration of User Group

We will announce a next meeting date and venue soon. Keep watching.

Hello Group members,

Unfortunately the post was deleted by mistake so re-writing the post.

Finally our group is getting shape and hence we are planning to have one meeting to structure the group in terms of who will do what. So I invite all of you who are intersted and in Surat right now, please join this group meeting on saturday.

Agenda:

1. Discussion about the Group Organization Structure (Who will do what?).
2. Discussion - Next 2 meetings including their topics and speakers if possible.
3. Discussion - How to gain more members and spread about the group in Surat?
4. Discussion - How Avinashi and FlashBrain will help us as a key sponsor?
5. Discussion - Flex 3 Launch Meeting.
6. Food :)

Date & Time:

16th February, 2008
5.30pm onwards

Venue:

Seminar Hall, Avinashi Systems Pvt. Ltd.
2nd Floor, Kohinoor Complex,
Chowki Street, Saiyedpura,
Surat - 395003.

Host:

Ashvin Savani - Arckid
Contact # 98250 56565, 98983 56565

Sponsor (Place & Food):

Avinashi Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Confirmed Attendees:

1. Ashvin Savani
2. Jignesh Dodiya
3. Naresh Khokhaneshiya
4. Alpesh Vaghasiya
5. Mehul Katrodiya
6. Paresh Khatri

 Please comment to this post to confirm your presense and I will add your name in confirmed Attendees.

So once again, website for our group is back again.