Macromedia flashes new MX wares

"The MX 2004 product line aims to encourage broader acceptance of Flash as a development environment, appealing initially to Visual Basic programmers

Macromedia on Tuesday launched the first major revamp of its MX line of Web design and development products, hoping to court a new class of developers.

As previously reported, the MX 2004 product line includes a new flavor of Flash, Macromedia's set of tools for creating applications, interfaces and animated graphics using the widespread Flash format. Flash MX 2004 Professional uses a forms-based interface similar to that used by programming environments such as Microsoft's widely used Visual Basic. The regular version of Flash MX 2004 will use the timeline-based interface familiar to long-term Flash developers."

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