SWFKit Pro 3 release date

[Gert]

Hi,

We are starting a large new flash project today and will need swfKit for saving xml files frequently.

1. When can we expect SWFKit Pro 3 to be available?

2. We already have SWFKit Pro 2. Is it worth waiting for v3?

3. Can we start using v2 and upgrade later?
I suppose not as all swfkit code is now available within the Flash IDE? This new feature looks very promissing to me - Can't wait to see how you guys did the trick!

thanks,
Gert

[SWFKit]

Thank you for being interested in our software.

V3 needs more testing and will be available in about three to five weeks. We recommend you to start using v2 now, if you have v2 and v2 can do what you want. First, you can finish your project ealier. Second, it is not complex to upgrade your project to v3, and v2 purchased in 2006 can be upgraded to v3 for free.

There are mainly two important improvements of v3, one is the ability to encrpyt resources such as swf, mp3, jpg, xml, etc, and you can get this feature in v3 without changing any code in the project produced by v2. The other is to call swfkit ffish script methods from within action script directly in flash 8. In v2, ffish scripts are called by fscommand asynchronously. However, it is very easy to modify your code to support this new feature in v3. V3 will provide a method called "_skcall" in action script, and you only need to change "fscommand" to "_skcall" to run the ffish scripts synchronously. E.g.

in v2
fscommand("run", "saveXML");
in v3 
_skcall("run", "saveXML");

Of course, the "fscommand" still works in v3. In v3 most ffish objects are avaliable in action script. But “ActiveXObject” is very hard to be used in action script directly, because it not only supports events, but also supports to access methods and properties of activex components dynamically. In a word, all the v2 features still work in v3. Although you can write swfkit code in flash 8 IDE, you can still write code in swfkit ffish editor and call it in action script. And applications created by the latter method will have better performance.

[xmedia]

How to purchase the V3 in CHina?
and the price of the V3?
any software agents u have?

[SWFKit]

You can contact us directly by email when v3 is available. Thank you.

[xmedia]

If u provide preview release or beta release of SWFKIT,
baseed on ur previous description, programming style of V3 is quite different from V2, I've play with V3 pretty well,
and thought it's much easier and straightforward
than ur competitor's product, i'd like to test V3 before i choose it, any suggestion!

[swan]

Please update us on your progress for Version 3 ???

[xmedia]

I wonder if ur company has some trouble?
nobody replies user's question!

again, when ur V3 available?

[SWFKit]

Sorry for the late reply, we didn't notice it. SWFKit Pro 3 needs one more month of last testing. So the release is delayed to 10, April.

[xmedia]

pretty good !

[GKFC]

Hi,

Not to be a cynic, but the last version of SWFKit took a further six months or so from when originally intended to be released.

I do hope that version 3 doesn't have the same issues.

Incidentally, is there a functionality list / change log for this version? I would be very interested to see it's feature set.

Cheers,

G.