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Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source) 57

Posted by timothy 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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  • Sounds like a malware creation kit to me.
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      • No, he's claiming that Flash CC is a malware creation kit.

        Pretty much everybody except Adobe knows Flash Player is a security threat and a vector for malware.

        • No, he's claiming that Flash CC is a malware creation kit.

          And how does one create malware with it? Flash Player has a history of having security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to be used to deliver malware but the malware isn't the SWF files that run on it.

          Pretty much everybody except Adobe knows Flash Player is a security threat and a vector for malware.

          Yes but this article is all about using Flash CC for targets that are explicitly not Flash Player.

  • Flash IDE ? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by alexhs ( 877055 )

    Flash IDE ?
    Is that a parallel ATA solid-state drive ?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by _merlin ( 160982 )

      I thought of the ATA Flash PCMCIA card variant.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AndroSyn ( 89960 )

      I too thought this was something about some sort of Compact Flash/IDE type interface and was wondering why anyone actually cared too much about IDE drive interfaces, or using non flash drives, in 2014.

      Crappy headline.

    • I too was wondering - do they mean Flash as in Adobe Flash, or Flash as in semiconductor NVMs?

  • It looks like Adobe is trying sell tools, which is fair enough. Adobe Cloud is req'd. Does it run on Linux? The most detailed spec I could gather is:

    The Architecture, MAC-friendliness, and the Boost (a la NOS!)

    Flash Pro CC is a comprehensively refactored, modular, 64-bit application. During the course of this release, the entire code-base was refreshed to turn Flash Pro in to a native cocoa application.

    I'm not talking about what OS the tool outputs to, what OS is required to run this hot new IDE from Adobe?

  • Generated code is poor (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    While I think the Flash authoring environment is great for putting together animations, the problem will be the generated code it produces. I tried out Adobe Edge awhile back, and was thoroughly disappointed by the code - neither optimised nor maintainable - it reminded me of the code Dreamweaver would churn out from years ago.

    It's too bad, because HTML5 needs a good authoring environment for animations (whether canvas, webgl or css) - and being able to use an industry standard like the Flash IDE would mak

    • I think the idea is that you make the animation in Blender and then you render to a video format for distribution.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Curtman ( 556920 ) *

        I think the idea is that you make the animation in Blender and then you render to a video format for distribution.

        There is burster...

        How the Burster works [geta3d.com]

        The Burster plugin resolves two major problems that was keeping the Blender from being accepted in business environments. Firstly, Burster allows you to put your Blender Game Engine file at your website. You do not have to record the (very big) movie, upload into the Youtube to show someone what great thing you have done. Secondly, you do not need to worry that someone will use your work without your knowledge. The blender source files could be now encrypted using very strong cryptographic algorithm. This alows you to sell your interactive 3D content without worrying about protecting the property. What about licensing? The Blender source files aren't covered by GPL v2 license so you can do with them whatever you want. The Burster plugin uses blenderplayer as external process, so Burster is not Blender's derivative - although it is still opensource software on GPL. One part of Burster plugin is closed and licensed with very restrictive license - the decode module - which is a shared library. The Burster plugin is free and open source and its source code is covered by GPL license.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by tepples ( 727027 )
          I visited Burster in Firefox on my Nexus 7 and got "We're very sorry, but Firefox can't play Flash on this device. Learn More..." So somehow Burster still appears to be relying on Flash Player. Besides, even on a PC running Windows® OS, will public libraries let users install Burster the way the libraries have already installed Flash Player?

  • Authoring tool (Score:5, Insightful)

    by BorgDrone ( 64343 ) on Saturday October 11, 2014 @06:06AM (#48118757) Homepage

    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.

    • No one cares *how* the content they made is played back

      Flash was initially popular because it could squeeze a vector animation into something that could be downloaded over dial-up Internet access in a reasonable amount of time, unlike DCT-based video codecs such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Sorenson Spark (H.263), and DivX (MPEG-4 Part 2). And nowadays, a lot of people are behind an Internet connection whose monthly cap isn't much better than dial-up for sustained transfers. Point your bandwidth measuring tool at French Erotic Film (SWF) [albinoblacksheep.com] and then at French Erotic Film (v [youtube.com]

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jrumney ( 197329 )

        French Erotic Film (SWF)

        Perhaps as an indication of how irrelevant Flash has become, my first reaction to seeing that was - you misspelled NSFW.

  • Maybe they heard us (Score:5, Funny)

    by cerberusss ( 660701 ) on Saturday October 11, 2014 @06:43AM (#48118799) Journal

    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.

  • HAHAHAHA (Score:2, Redundant)

    by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

    Maybe Adobe heard us after all?

    Hilarious. No, they heard the bell tolling, and they didn't have to ask for whom it was doing that. Flash is hated by everyone but some of the people who make flash movies and its influence has been waning as people leave it behind. They know that their days are numbered if they don't give up on the Flash runtime.

  • Something to do with solid state hard drives

  • I hope somebody involved with the project has enough brains to make the code power efficient.

  • Why do they still call it Flash?
    It's obvious that in the near future it won't be Flash anymore, they're just trying to retain the name for obvious reasons - keep installing the Flash shit on your rig.

    FWIW, I have no flashes installed 3 months now and I'm happier than ever.

  • The IDE with the name "Flash" (or "Flash CC" in it's current version) is by far the best 2d animation tool in the industry. That said, despite an ever increasing IDE set of feature, it's horrendous for coding and debugging. The OpenSource project "Flash Develop" ( http://flashdevelop.org/ [flashdevelop.org] ) made AS3 usable by the many hobbyists writing games, as well as the AAA's doing UI work via Scaleform's Flash player.

    For those not on the Flash/AS3 scene: there was the meme "Flash is Dead" that started about 3-5 years

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