degrafa

It’s hard to believe that what started as a casual email exchange between fellow developers would evolve into what we’re releasing today. That’s right, the Degrafa beta is finally here! We’re calling this initial beta Degrafa Origin (for obvious reasons) and we hope it will be the first in a series. There’s a huge amount of features that we want to add, but we opted to get something out there before 2010 and get some feedback.

Release Notes

• You can get the SWC from Google Code. We’ll be making the source available in the next couple days. We were pushing to get it out today, but with the holiday schedule it wasn’t happening.
• Check out the documentation at docs.degrafa.com. We’ll be updating the documentation throughout the week.
• View samples at samples.degrafa.com. We’ll be adding more samples in the next few days/weeks.
• Get in on the discussions on the Degrafa Google Group.

We’ll continue to add to all these areas in the coming days and weeks. We welcome any feedback, feature requests, “what the hell” inquiries and the like. It’ll only make the framework better.

Some parts of the framework are still rough around the edges and we hope to smooth those out over the next few weeks. ﾠHere are some items we hope to release/complete in the coming weeks/months:

• Transformations
• Tons of skinning improvements
• Layout management
• Improved and complete documentation
• Many, many more great examples to get you up and running
• An SVG to Degrafa conversion tool and all round better SVG support
• Optimization improvements
• Several other features that will make Degrafa more valuable

ﾠ

Stay tuned for more to come and be sure to hone your Degrafa skills, as they may come in handy very soon.

Special Thanks

The Degrafa team would like to extend a huge thank you to the folks over at Effective UI for graciously providing Degrafa a welcome home during it’s inception. We would also like to thank the beta testers: Dirk, Dominique, Ken, and Nahuel.

ﾠ

Also, we’d like to thank people at Adobe, including Ely Greenfield, Glenn Ruehle and Ted Patrick for sharing their thoughts with us along the way. We look forward to the further advancements of graphics related work within the Flex framework and hope to be a part of efforts in this area.

ﾠ