Today I came across a really nice walkthrough by Lee Brimelow (@leebrimelow) of the Flash CS5 IDE:
http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=118
He demos and discusses the features with some detail, or you can read my cliffs notes version below:
- Major upgrades to video support in the IDE
- Create cuepoints in the IDE
- Play the video while its on the stage
- Manipulate the video on the stage while its playing
- More video player skins
- Live video player skin switching
- Font Embedding Improvements
- New Panel UI
- Embedded fonts are globally managed through the new panel
- XFL Format
- Replaces FLA format
- FLA data is contained in multiple XML source files
- Can version control XML files rather than binary FLAs
- SWF File size History is tracked
- Code Snippets included to implement simple functionality quickly
- Editor now has code hinting and completion for all imported classes (just like Flash Builder)
- Selecting an error in the Compiler Errors brings you to the source
- Tight integration for code editing with Flash Builder
- New brushes for Deco tool (Designers will love these)
- SWFObject2 used as default embedding method (just like Flash Builder)
- TLF (Text Layout Framework) gives you tons of options for doing awesome things with text
- flow text between multiple TextFields, TextAreas
- Multi-column text fields
- Possibly automatically scrollable
- Easier Internationalization, including right to left (Arabic) and vertical (Japanese)
- Highlighting conforms to customized text flow
And a bonus! Here is a walkthrough of how to export your ActionScript project as a native iPhone application! http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=116