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Developing for Flash Player 10 in Flex Builder 3

Posted in Flash, Tutorials, Flex, Community MX, Adobe, Flash Player, Flash CS3, Creative Suite, Flash CS4, FP10 by Joeflash on the November 12th, 2008

In the past few weeks I’ve written two free tutorials on Community MX that guide you through the process of compiling for Flash Player 10 in Flex Builder 3. One shows a Flex project compiled for FP10, and the second shows a Flex-free AS project compiled for FP10.

Developing for Flash Player 10 in Flex Builder 3

     This article shows you how to install the latest stable Flex 3.2 SDK, and from there configure Flex Builder to compile for Flash 10 using the latest playerglobal.swc file.

Developing a Flex-free AS3 Project for Flash Player 10 in Flex Builder 3

     This article shows you how to create an ActionScript project in Flex Builder compiled for Flash 10. It also shows you how to remove references to the Flex framework, so you can use Flex Builder for compiling pure ActionScript 3.0 projects without worrying whether you’ll “accidentally” use a part of the Flex framework. For those resisting the Flash CS4 upgrade, you may not be able to compile for Flash Player 10 in Flash CS3, but you can in Flex Builder 3.

CS3 Suite & Misc Adobe Installation Hell (and The Solutions)

Posted in AIR, Flex, Adobe, Flashpaper, Macromedia, Creative Suite by Joeflash on the June 11th, 2008