Tour de Flex 1.2 Released
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: April 2, 2009
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Tour De Flex Introduction:
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
Tour de Flex has three primary goals:
- Provide non-Flex developers with an overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see” environment
- Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
- Provide commercial and non-commercial Flex developers with a place to showcase their work
System requirements:
- Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux
Tour De Flex 1.2
Adobe has finally released Tour de Flex 1.2. Below are the highlights:
- New improved skin (thinner chrome)
- Splash screen has been replaced by a quick start screen that we can update frequently with news of new samples, resources, etc.
- Fixed a memory/CPU issue (see Gregs Ramblings previous post)
- Comments are now hosted in the Adobe forums. You can post questions, subscribe to responses, etc.
- Now requires AIR 1.5 (New AIR 1.5 specific samples and Flash Player 10 specific samples)
- Localization for Japanese – the language reference tabs are now pointing to the Japanese content. More localization is planned in the near future. Localization was actually part of the 1.1 release that we launched in Japan. We did not force an auto-update since most existing users would not benefit.
- The download size is now 35% smaller thanks to RSLs.
- Categories are all tree-based instead of a mix of dropdown and tree (confused a few people)
- Minor improvements to Eclipse plugin
You can download the latest version from
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex.
or download from this Direct Link
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/air/TourDeFlex.air
If you already have Tour de Flex, your version will auto-update.
New Web Version!
In addition to a new desktop version, Adobe has also launched a new web browser-based version of Tour de Flex. Obviously, it doesn’t include the AIR desktop samples but most of the remaining samples are included. Holly Schinsky did most of the “magic” to make the web version possible. She will be blogging about the experience shortly.
Check it out at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/web
The web version supports deep linking so the browser back/forward buttons work as expected. You can even bookmark specific samples!
The primary purpose of the web version is to provide an easier on-ramp for those exploring Flex for the first time. It also provides the ability to view samples from environments that don’t allow applications to be installed.
The SAP Community Network website now points to the web version introducing a whole new crowd to Flex!
Tour de Flex Desktop
Tour de Flex Web Version
