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San Francisco—September 6, 2002—Macromedia,
Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the availability
of the Macromedia MX Developer
Resource Kit, Volume One. The kit, the first of
a quarterly series, contains extensions, components,
and resources to enable Macromedia
Flash MX, Dreamweaver
MX, and ColdFusion
MX developers to quickly and easily create and
deploy rich Internet applications. Macromedia MX Developer
Resource Kit, Volume One, costs $99 and is available
for immediate purchase from the Macromedia Online
Store at www.macromedia.com/go/buydrk/.
"Macromedia is committed to providing solutions
that help our developer base more efficiently create
rich Internet applications with the integrated Macromedia
MX product family, " said Dominic Gallello, EVP—Products, Macromedia. "The extensions and components
in the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit will help
developers reduce their time to market by quickly
delivering professional results."
The Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit contains
cross-product articles and resources, Macromedia Flash
MX components, and Dreamweaver MX extensions. These
extensions and components for Macromedia Flash MX
and Dreamweaver MX will only be available as part
of this kit. The kit also contains an archive of more
than 400 MB of content from the Macromedia
Designer & Developer Center including multiple
sample applications, tutorials, and other articles.
For a detailed list of the kit contents, go to www.macromedia.com/go/drk/.
For Macromedia Flash MX developers, the kit includes
the new DataGrid component. The DataGrid component
provides the most versatile and useful way of quickly
displaying data in a tabular format within rich Internet
applications. With support for scrolling, paging, Macromedia Flash Remoting,
customization, editable cells, and custom cell renderers,
it can accommodate most data display needs.
"The Macromedia Flash MX DataGrid component
is the most versatile component ever released by Macromedia,"
said Justin Watkins, interactive producer, Learning
Insights, Inc. "Almost every application needs
to display data in a tabular format and the DataGrid
component enables you to create tables with user-resizable
columns, custom cell symbols, and editable text fields
with barely any code. It brings rich Internet application
development to a new level. "
Also for Macromedia Flash MX, the Media Component
enables developers to quickly load and playback various
media types including video within their content.
In addition, the Macromedia Flash UI Component Set
3 will help streamline user interface development
of rich Internet applications.
For Dreamweaver MX developers, the kit contains extensions
for website building and application development.
The extensions help display data in PHP applications,
add functions to the file menu in Dreamweaver, and
edit themes for sites developed using Radio Userland
for editing weblogs.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
The Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit, Volume One,
is priced at $99 and is available in English only.
It is available for immediate purchase from the Macromedia
Online store (www.macromedia.com/store/).
ABOUT MACROMEDIA
Macromedia (www.macromedia.com) empowers
millions of designers and developers to create effective
user experiences across the widest array of platforms
and devices. Through an open, integrated family of
client, tool, and server technologies, Macromedia
is driving a new generation of rich Internet applications
that will radically improve the Internet experience.
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