The Flash IDE is Not Dead

It's funny that after attending a Flex conference I would come away looking forward to the next version of the Flash IDE! But this is what happened at 360 Flex yesterday. The Flash 9 IDE is just around the corner -- it's part of the Adobe CS3 -- and it sounds like it will have a couple of extremely helpful features:

• Import Photoshop documents into Flash, including support for layers.
• It will allow you to create Apollo apps
• Grant Skinner gave a presentation where he pushed Flash as an asset management tool. He demonstrated his strategy of embedding assets into Flex as "asset libraries".
  
• The ability to export symbols to Flex components as SWC files. (Though it will not be possible to export Flex components into Flash.)

I'm glad that better integration between Flash and Flex is finally on the horizon!