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Flex cookbook beta now available
Adobe (Dec 18)
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Making videos work the way the web works
Mike Lanza (Dec 22)
Understand linear and nonlinear content consumption, and learn about alternative approaches to viewing and commenting on web videos using Flash Media Server.
Sample: Connecting a form to a database (ZIP, 156K)
Stefan Cameron (Dec 22)
Learn how to connect to and display records from a database.
- Stefan's recent samples
Train Simple videos: Introduction to Flash Media Server 2
Train Simple and William B. Sanders (Dec 22)
Get up to speed on installing and configuring FMS, working with classes, and FLV capture and playback.
More new articles
- Taking a Fireworks comp to a CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver: Parts 1–3 (Dec 18)
- Creating liquid GUIs with Flash, Flex Builder, and ActionScript 3.0 (Dec 18)
- Migrating from Microsoft FrontPage 2003 to Dreamweaver 8 (Dec 18)
- Working with Nokia Series 40 Flash Lite content – Part 2: Creating wallpaper (Dec 18)
- New Flex community area (Dec 18)
- Leveraging Adobe LiveCycle Forms with ColdFusion (Dec 18)
- Sharing Acrobat settings and data with FDF files in Acrobat 8 (Dec 18)
(PDF, 456K) - Minimizing exposure of personal information on public computers in Adobe Reader 7 (Dec 18) (PDF, 763K)
- The "Watch Folder" pattern for LiveCycle Workflow (Dec 18)
(PDF, 170K) - Working with Nokia Series 40 Flash Lite content – Part 1: Capabilities overview (Dec 11)
Adobe Labs: Early releases of software
- Photoshop CS3 beta (Dec 15)
- JSEclipse (Dec 15)
- Mars (Nov 30)
- Scorpio (Nov 30)
- Flex Stress Testing Framework
(Nov 30) - kuler (Nov 21)
- ColdFusion Portlet Toolkit (Oct 30)
- Cairngorm 2.1 beta (Oct 28)
- Adobe Soundbooth (Oct 25)
- Flex Builder 2 on Macintosh (Oct 25)
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ADAA 2007: Call for entries
Students – submit your best work to the Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Top prize is US$5000 in each category.
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Samples
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Sample applications
Flex 2 sample applications
Adobe (June 27, 2006)
Fresh from the Flex team, these new samples show you what you can build and deploy with Flex 2 and Flash Player 9.
LiveCycle Designer scripting samples
Expand your knowledge of LiveCycle Designer by using sample forms that demonstrate quick and simple solutions.
Sample: Exposing LiveCycle workflows in BEA WebLogic Portal (ZIP, 46.9 MB)
Adobe (July 24, 2006)
Learn how to integrate LiveCycle Form Manager and LiveCycle Workflow in the BEA WebLogic environment.
Flex community sample applications
Adobe (July 17, 2006)
Check out what developers in the Flex and Flash community are building with Flex 2, Flash Player 9, and ActionScript 3.0.
LiveCycle PDF Generator samples (ZIP, 717K)
Adobe (May 30, 2006)
Download sample implementations that use the LiveCycle PDF Generator web service API.
Introducing Yahoo! Maps JS-Flash API
Use JavaScript to customize the functionality and appearance of your Yahoo! Maps applications.
Creating Your First Website with Dreamweaver 8
The Real Estate Sample App: Flash Forms, Flash Remoting, and ColdFusion MX 7
ColdFusion, Flash Remoting, Flash
(Advanced)
Create an RIA with CFCs, Flash Remoting, and ColdFusion Flash Forms.
Part 1: Coding a Search Interface
Part 2: Managing Property Listings
Sample: Developing a Portlet for Adobe LiveCycle Forms (ZIP, 210k)
LiveCycle
See how to incorporate Adobe LiveCycle forms into the IBM WebSphere portal
environment with this sample JSR 168 portlet. Download
sample (ZIP, 210k)
Using Flash for the First Time
Part 1: Building a Banner
Part 2: Adding Symbols, Animation, and ActionScript
Part 3: Publishing and Adding the Flash File to a Web Page
More Developer Center sample applications
Code samples
Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 3: Creating and running a phone selector
Discover basic Flex functionality through the Flex Phone Selector sample application.
In Labs: Flex-Ajax Bridge
This new JavaScript library enables developers to easily integrate Flex applications with Ajax or DHTML code running in the browser.
Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video
Use XML to display multiple video clips and generate thumbnails dynamically without editing your Flash file.
Introduction to Designing with CSS
Part 1: Understanding
CSS Design Concepts
Part 2: Defining
Style Properties and Working with Floats
Part 3: Creating Your First Design Without Tables
Part 4: Creating a Two-Column Layout
Part 5: Defining Columns and Vertical List Navigation
Part 6: Deciding Whether to Float or Position Columns
In Labs: ActionScript 3.0 Libraries for Flex 2
Build Flex 2 apps with the Flickr API, Mappr API, RSS parser API, search APIs for video and podcasts, and more.
Writing a PDF file to the file system at the end of a workflow (PDF: 464k)
Ron Stone (April 3, 2006)
By saving forms to a file system as PDF documents at the end of a workflow,
you can achieve integration between LiveCycle Workflow and other enterprise
processes.
Using Matrices for Transformations, Color Adjustments, and Convolution Effects in Flash
Learn about the value of matrices and how to use them to control graphic effects at the pixel level.
SDKs & downloads
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SDKs
The following software development kits (SDKs) and other developer resources are available for Adobe products:
- Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Collaboration Builder SDK
- Adobe® Acrobat® SDK
- Adobe Acrobat Capture® SDK
- Adobe After Effects® SDK
- Adobe Audition® SDK
- Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType® (AFDKO)
- Adobe FrameMaker® Developer Kit
- Adobe GoLive® SDK
- Adobe Illustrator® SDK
- Adobe InDesign® / Adobe InCopy® SDK
- Adobe LiveCycle® SDK
- Adobe PageMaker® SDK
- Adobe Photoshop® SDK
- Adobe PostScript® SDK
- Adobe Premiere® Pro SDK
- Free Flex 2 SDK (Included with Flex Builder 2)
- Macromedia® Breeze® SyncSWF SDK
- Macromedia Flash® Player Developer SDKs
- XMP SDK
Top developer downloads
- Photoshop CS3 beta
- JSEclipse
- Adobe Reader
- kuler
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional trial
- Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 trial
- Adobe Soundbooth
- Flash Lite 2.1 Authoring
- Flex Builder 2 on Macintosh
- Flash Lite 2.1 Authoring
- Scheduling Framework for Flex 2
- In Labs: Flash Player 9 beta for Linux
- ASDoc
- Lightroom beta 3 for Windows
- JamJar
- Flash Lite™ 2.1 for BREW® beta
- Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview
- Spry Ajax framework
- Developer Toolbox for LiveCycle software
- Adobe Flex™ 2
- Adobe Flash Player 9
- Macromedia Flash Lite™ 2.0 CDK
- Adobe Flex-Ajax Bridge
- ActionScript 3.0 Libraries
- Macromedia Dreamweaver® 8.01 Updater
- Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 Tryout
- Macromedia Flash Detection Kit
- Macromedia Flash Updaters
- Macromedia Shockwave® Player 10.1 Update
More downloads
- Adobe product updates
- Extensions and plug-ins (Adobe Exchange)
- Trial downloads
- Prerelease software and alpha projects (Adobe Labs)
Training
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Top courses
- Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications
- Macromedia Flash 8: Advanced design
- Macromedia Flash Media Server 2: Streaming media application development
- Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1: Mobile application development
- Developing rich Internet applications with Macromedia Flex 1.5
- Using Macromedia Breeze Meeting 5
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