MAX 2006 Keynote
Today is the first day of MAX. The keynote this morning was awesome, especially with the Blue Man Group starting the session off with some entertainment. I had only seen them on commericals (Intel?)--they were quite cool in person.
Adobe made lots of announcements. Here is my raw rundown of what happened:
Website Workflow
new vision for "Website Workflow": Voxi Energy Drink demo
Adobe Photoshop --> Adobe Fireworks (no more ImageReady) --> can share layers and output
Adobe Photoshop --> Copy & Paste to Dreamweaver (code name Hanzo) --> Dreamweaver exports from Photoshop and automatically creates a jpg version and asks for alt text
Then double-click image in Dreamweaver activates Photoshop, make edits, automatically updates jpg for Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver --> Spry integration
-- xml bindings in Dreamweaver
-- new onclick/onblur events --> what effect do you want? how long, etc.
* Can sign up for fireworks beta on labs
=Dynamic Media Workflow=
Photoshop --> Flash -->
new photoshop allows iconic palette mode, dockable palettes
new flash allows native importing of PSD files
-- sees all the PSD layers
-- create movie clips from the layers
-- all PSD filter affects automatically transfer to native flash effects (multiply, etc.)
After Effects
-- puppet
ANNOUNCEMENT: Adobe Soundbooth
-- audio editor
-- task-based workflow
-- create music
-- noise removal
-- visual healing
-- embed que points and output as flash video
-- available on Adobe Labs
=RIA Workflow=
Photoshop --> Flex --> ColdFusion
Sho Kuwomota (sp?)
Flex Builder 2
Design View
Code Hinting
Debugging
Component Skinning
Flex Data Services 2
Messaging Service
Data Management Service
RPC Services
Flex skinning: Illustrator, Flash, zzz
Flex Builder
Top Canvas --> 3 buttons and another canvas
Data Grid underneath
Design in Illustrator, export as Flash SWFs, then attach to UI in Flex Builder
create and attach a css to style it
ColdFusion -- Ben Forta
v.7 shipped 18 months ago
Flex Builder 2 with ColdFusion extensions
New --> ColdFusion/Flex Application Wizard
Create new pages, link to datasources (Query Builder like in Report Builder), show selected fields, and sort [key, display, editable, required, label, input control, validation, mask, etc.]
Requires CF 7.02
Scorpio
3 sessions -- server monitoring, .net integration, image processing
full image manipulation
ImageSetDrawing....
Meet the ColdFusion Team
=Electronic Document Workflow=
Design Printed Form --> Develop Interactive Form
* Scan paper form into a plain PDF file
* Field recognition wizard -- automatically detects form fields
LiveCycle Designer
-- build drop-downs, format (e.g. currency), etc.
--SNEAK PEAK--
Flex front-end to a PDF (Flash RIA) --> seamless integration between the two (update fields in one updates the other)
new LiveCycle Designer has a flex wizard to co-generate a flex app, PDF and the code to tie them together
Scorpio will allow further interation...
=Apollo=
Ed Rowe
What is it? RIAs outside the web browser; cross-platform (without modification)
Features
online/offline detection and events
local file access
drag-and-drop
clipboard access
background processing
multiple windows support
custom window chrome
more...
Ascension -- demo music player app
UI is written either in SWF or HTML/Ajax or some combination of the two
Allows interation with PDFs
Maptacular -- demo combination ...
-- Google Maps running in the Apollo window
-- slideout Contact drawer and popup panel running on top of HTML (with transparency)
-- drag from flash to html and have GoogleMaps locate address
Free command line tools as well as integration with other Adobe tools
Flex Builder
Dreamweaver
InDesign
Command Line
Flash
LiveCycle Designer
Photoshop
More..
Create a deployment package
SWF
PDF
HTML
PNG, JPEG, ...
Creates a normal installed application with all the assets, complete with uninstall
