Macromedia announced MX 2004 today, new versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks (http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/). Flash now comes in two editions, Flash MX (the update to Flash MX) and Flash MX Professional (a brand new Flash with a development model that will appeal to us application coders, see http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flashpro/development/). I am working on a few CF/Flash Pro integration articles to be posted in the next few weeks, stay tuned.
MX 2004: New Versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks
8 responses to “MX 2004: New Versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks”
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Any word on an update to the poor cousin, HS+? We need debugging back!
Cheers,
Oliver Merk
Merk Consulting -
Yeah I’d be interested in hearing about HS+. Dreamweaver is a fine product but not one I like to code CF in.
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Yeah I’d be interested in hearing about HS+. Dreamweaver is a fine product but not one I like to code CF in.
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HomeSite 5.5 is in the works, it is an upgrade to the current HomeSite 5.2.
As for debugging, HomeSite never had that, CF Studio did. And I don’t believe that that will be coming back. -
Studio out?
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Ben,
Don’t you think it’s a bit odd (if not embarrassing;) for Macromedia not to offer an IDE that supports debugging for MX? As a developer, this is my biggest disappointment with what is otherwise a very good product line. I’d guess there are a lot of us old-fashioned CF hand-coders who feel the same way about losing this functionality, and CF Studio as well.
Regards,
Oliver -
I couldn’t care less about debugging just like the simple-ness of Studio/HomeSite and all the tricks I’ve picked up over the years that save me time.
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Oliver,
There is a new HS+ too, it’ll be included with DreamWeaver like it was before.
And as for debugging … I sympathize, I used to use the Studio debugger too. But when the DW team surveys the CF base (and they did speak to a large number of CF users) almost no one used the debugger (or even knew how to). So when they prioritized features the debugger was not made a high priority. I hope this will change in the future, but this has not changed in DWMX 2004.
— Ben
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