Flash CS5 and SWFObject2 – It's about flipping time

Posted on Jan 2, 2010

Wow, how exciting.

Honestly, I never made the entire jump to Flash CS4 and have been using CS3 but have improved my AS3 programming to a comfortable not so scary state but I will have to make the jump to CS5.

From the preview there are so many things that look great.  The code snippets are great, I have such a hard time keeping track of all my tweens, etc. and end up with a lot of external classes that I can’t remember if I am using in the final design or not and have to go back over everything.  The drawing tools and the ability to manipulate any videos on screen.

One of the big issues and hurdles I have to get through is the deeplinking in Flash.  I have GOT TO GET A GRASP on SWFaddress.  Would be nice if this was built into Flash CS5, seems like a no brainer on that one but maybe it’s just me.

Watch a preview of Flash CS5 – love the flv editing ability, love the font embed, love the swf history size feature. (Screenshots below are all from the preview…watch it).