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Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source)

Posted by timothy on from the what's-your-pleasure dept.

lars_doucet (2853771) writes Flash CC now has an SDK for creating custom project file formats; this lets you use the Flash IDE to prepare and publish content for (not-the-flash-player) compile targets. Among these new platforms is OpenFL, a fully open-source re-implementation of the Flash API that exports to Javascript and C++ (no Flash Player!), among other targets: When Adobe demoed the custom project feature at Adobe MAX the other night, they brought out Joshua Granick (lead maintainer of OpenFL) to show off a custom OpenFL project format that lets you make Flash Art in Flash CC, then compile it out to Flash, HTML5, and native C++ (desktop+mobile) targets. Maybe Adobe heard us after all?

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  1. Authoring tool by BorgDrone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This was to be expected, Adobe's biggest asset with Flash was it's authoring tool and the millions of people who are familiar with it. No one cares *how* the content they made is played back . In the end the flash plugin is irrelevant.

  2. Maybe they heard us by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Adobe heard us after all?

    Yeah, maybe they listened to us! There was a board meeting in a hot tub on top of a huge black skyscraper, with hookers and blackjack. They were laughing and counting money and all of a sudden, a mobile phone goes off. Then a fat white old dude reaches over to the phone and says apologetically, "sorry everybody, gotta take this one, it's a client of ours".

    Then there's maybe a second of silence and everybody laughs really hard. The prostitutes don't get it, but they laugh as well.

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  3. Re:are you fucking kidding me? by MisterSquid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except they've pivoted and HAVE been making HTML5 authoring tools for the last 3 years. Edge, Muse, Flash (yes, it's been exporting to HTML5 for a while now), among others use HTML5 as their final output.

    I went to a pitch-disguised-as-a-conference for one of Adobe's then-upcoming products (Edge?) and was fairly impressed about Adobe's recommitting to HTML5 authoring and a CSS/JS IDE.

    Fast forward two years and many developers still haven't touched these products because they are avoiding Adobe's subscription-based licensing.

    Adobe needs radically to change their corporate culture because a significant portion of the developers who would love to use their products are NOT going to start paying rent to even read the content they've created.*

    * This sentence is a polite translation of "Adobe can go die in a fire."

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