Maker of Zinc, Multidmedia welcomes Open Source Flex

Zinc is the industry leading SWF2EXE application - Create, Build and Deploy real Desktop Applications based upon the Adobe Flash Format! Available for Windows, Mac OSX and Pocket PC, Zinc is the fastest, most powerful, most feature-packed Rapid Application Development tool for Adobe Flash.

Zinc Mac Multidmedia Limited the creators of Flash based development software Zinc released a Press Release stating their welcome embrace of Open Souce Flex, “any step towards supporting the open source community has got to be a step for the good.”

Flex and Zinc work hand in hand; Adobe Flex Builder 2 provides an Eclipse-based environment in which developers can easily create richer, more expressive Rich Internet Applications. Zinc ensures that the {mdm} Script API is available for Flex developers and that Flex projects can easily be deployed as Zinc desktop applications for both Windows and Mac OSX systems.

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Brajeshwar posted this article on Thu, May 10th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
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John Hattan May 10th, 2007 at 11:17 pm 1

I’ve seen this posted to a couple of blogs, but I don’t see what’s the news here.

Flex is a compiler that produces SWF files. Zinc is a product that converts SWF files into standalone executables by wrapping up the SWF with the Flash runtime and some more runtime stuff to break out of the Flash sandbox.

The status of Flex (or any other SWF maker) as open or closed source doesn’t affect Zinc one way or the other, as Zinc’s big dependency is the Flash player.
Brajeshwar May 10th, 2007 at 11:59 pm 2

@John, very true. I think that is what everybody is saying! All tools have their rightful specific usage.
Derek Vadneau May 12th, 2007 at 6:52 am 3

So, MDM is saying nothing but passing along Adobe’s news. How is that MDM news? If it related to them, they sure didn’t explain that. Talk about riding someone else’s wave.
Jmayudu July 10th, 2007 at 11:12 am 4

It very very good..
I never think that A SWF file can be converted in to Desktop application, I really thank to U All, Now I am going to make an Window
based Desktop application on VOIP (creating Extension’s, Trunks, Super Admins, Admin’s, User’s, Call Ricording’s Conference, Video Conference…Intercum .etc..), I am making it Using FLASH CS3, It is difficult to make it for me, But I am trying…. Product name is VOXSY 2.0.. ok

Thanku… Jmayudu.Ch