Powerful Design Features for Adding InteractivityĪdditionally, designers can leverage the powerful new features in Flash Professional CS5, including a new text engine providing creative freedom and control over text, enhanced capabilities for team collaboration on projects, prebuilt code snippets for rapidly adding interactivity and integration with Flash Builder for advanced ActionScript® code editing. This powerful combination provides designers with greater control of their creative vision, while allowing developers to stay focused on core application logic.
Using Flash Builder 4, developers can better collaborate with designers to rapidly build and deliver applications while maintaining the specific interactions and fidelity as defined by the designer using Flash Catalyst.
The project file can then be imported into Adobe Flash Builder where a developer can add functionality and integrate with servers and services.Īlso new to CS5 Web Premium and CS5 Master Collection is Flash Builder 4, an Eclipse based, professional development tool designed to help software developers rapidly build cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the Flex framework. Flash Catalyst also allows round-trip editing of structured pieces of the interaction design project in Photoshop or Illustrator and allows finished projects to be published for distribution as SWF files. Because designers can now create interactive content without writing code, they can precisely realize their interactive concepts with Flash Catalyst, and work directly with their customers to refine those concepts using fully functional implementations rather than static screenshots. Using Flash Catalyst CS5, designers can easily add interactive Flash content to Web sites and applications by transforming native Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® artwork, as well as files from Adobe Fireworks® CS5, into functional content and user interfaces (UI). “By bringing together the reach of the Flash Platform runtimes with the power of the Flash Platform tools integrated in Creative Suite 5, designers and developers can collaborate more effectively, reducing the time required to deliver the compelling applications and content that users now expect on the Web and mobile devices.”Īdd Interactive Flash Content Without Code “Adobe is committed to driving innovation on the Web by providing the best tools to designers and developers,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager of Creative Solutions at Adobe. It will also be available as a stand-alone product.
These powerful new Flash tools in Creative Suite 5 come in advance of the much-anticipated releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® 2, which are optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a richer, more immersive user experience.įlash Catalyst CS5 will be offered in the Adobe CS5 Master Collection, Design Premium, Web Premium and Production Premium editions (see separate releases). Together with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe Flash Builder™ 4, Flash Catalyst CS5 software enables designers and developers to collaborate and work more productively together. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has unveiled Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5, a new professional interaction design tool that allows designers to rapidly create expressive Web application interfaces and design interaction without writing code.