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By: Fotografia Ślubna Sosnowiec - Światłem Malowane

Fotografia Ślubna Sosnowiec - Światłem Malowane — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:42:10 +0000

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By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:19:54 +0000

@Deepak MS,still a ways out. First quarter of next year is the release date. We’ll be doing a public beta late May/early June.

=Ryan
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By: Deepak MS

Deepak MS — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:25:51 +0000

Agreed! It was pretty terse and quick overview on the potential ability of the product and nothing more, nor less :)
Looks like it would be the best tool for UI designers!

Any idea when is it getting released?

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:33:27 +0000

Hey Peter, thanks for blogging.

When I first heard and saw what was then “Thermo”, I thought the same thing – that it would be a great design view for Flex Builder. Since then I’ve realized that it wouldn’t work very well that way.

I think Catalyst is going to be a great tool for Flex developers who are feeling creative, but ultimately, it’s a designer tool. If you’re good in Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc; then Catalyst is your tool. In a lot of cases, unless the designer is working with a developer, they may not even know or care that it’s Flex under the hood. They’re just creating a SWF.

So in order to make this tool really, really accessible for designers, we wouldn’t want to make it part of Flex Builder.

If you have more thoughts on it, I’d be interested in hearing them (either here in comments or via email).

=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com