New features available in Flash MX Professional 2004 only

Flash MX Professional 2004 offers all the features available in Flash MX 2004, plus a variety of new features to enhance application development and design. Features include the screen-based visual development environment, and tools for managing data interactively and for fostering team productivity.

Screen-based visual development environment

A visual programming environment Flash MX Professional 2004 introduces a forms-based visual programming environment, which is ideal for developing applications. For more information, see Slide screens and form screens (Flash Professional only).

Slides-based authoring Slide screens provide functionality designed for sequential presentations. For more information, see Slide screens and form screens (Flash Professional only).

A new generation of components

Advanced components support New components now support focus management to control tab navigation. Although the components have a new sophisticated design, you can easily reskin them to modify their appearance. For more information, see Benefits of v2 components.

Data interactivity

Data binding Data binding allows you to connect any component to various data sources to manipulate, display, and update data through components or ActionScript. For more information, see Data Integration (Flash Professional Only).

Prebuilt data connectors for Web Services and XML New components allow you to connect to web services and XML data sources easily. For more information, see Components Dictionary.

Performance improvements Performance improvements on large record sets allow your application to work efficiently with large amounts of data.

Team productivity

Project management The Project panel enables centralized project file management, version control, and workflow optimization for teams of Flash users working together. For more information, see Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only).

Source code control Flash Professional provides source code control integration with plug-ins to industry-leading source control systems such as Microsoft Visual Source Safe. For more information, see Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only).