A brief overview of the features and innovations of MDM Zinc 4.0

What is Zinc?

Zinc (Eng. Zinc, Ukrainian: Zinc) is a chemical element of Zn with an atomic mass of 65.38; zinc is used for galvanizing steel products to prevent corrosion. A joke;)
But in our case, Zinc is a development environment, in the form of an add-on over Adobe ® Flash, designed to integrate flash applications and quickly develop desktop applications for Win, Mac OC and Linux. Zinc converts swf files to executable exe files. With Zinc, you can create your own screensavers, notebooks, FTP clients, MP3 players. Zinc applications can easily be ported to computers running Windows, Mac OC, and Linux.

MDM Zinc 4.0

So, glad to introduce! In the arena is Zinc version 4.0, and how developers of the cross-platform development environment are praised - Simple, Flexible, Powerful and Recycled, as many as four times, a solution for creating desktop applications based on the SWF format from Adobe ® Flash. Zinc 4.0 compiles the SWF file into a powerful desktop application (creates a projector) for OS platforms such as Windows, Mac OSX or Linux, and all this within one project.

Of the main advantages of the development environment is the creation of stunning commercial applications, screensavers, widgets, games, autoruns, CDs, DVDs, kiosks and much more, which in turn will be available for both Windows and Mac OSX.
To date, Zinc 4.0 is the only X-Platform tool for rapid application development based on Adobe ® Flash projects.

Innovations MDM Zinc 4.0

Ability to export a project
in Xcode 4.0 Zinc projects can be easily exported to Xcode 4.0. As you know, Xcode 4, the new version of Apple's powerful integrated development environment for creating applications for Mac OS.

Zinc 4.0 can convert a compiled project into a valid Xcode 4.0 project, which can later be edited and signed for the Mac App Store (see below).

The ability to publish applications on the Mac App Store The application
compiled in Zinc 4.0 can now be converted to Xcode 4.0 projects as mentioned above, which are fully compatible with applications in the Mac App Store, which facilitates the easy distribution of such applications through the Mac App store.

In turn, the Mac App store has completely changed for Mac users the way they download and purchase software, integrating their Mac App purchase directly with existing iTunes accounts. Thanks to Zinc 4.0, you now have access to millions of potential users by submitting your Zinc 4.0 apps in the Mac App Store.

Zinc 4.0 desktop applications with HTML5
For the first time in zinc, it is possible to create desktop applications from more than just Flash. Zinc 4.0, easily builds a desktop application for Window and Mac OSX with full HTML5 support. HTML5 provides a wide range of open web technologies, including CSS3, HTML5 markup itself, and JavaScript, as well as libraries and frameworks such as jQuery.
The Zinc 4.0 application can be compiled for remote or local use of HTML5 in a project. Using the power of CSS, Ajax, and the core HTML5 APIs, Zinc 4.0 users can create interactive desktop applications from existing and new web projects.

Asynchronous programming parameters
Zinc 4.0 was armed with the {mdm} Script 4.0 class - the fourth processing and improvement of the Zinc programming API. {mdm} Script 4.0 integrates directly with ActionScript versions 2.0 and 3.0, and includes asynchronous command transfers, including FileSystem, Database, Dialog, and Network classes.

Asynchronous execution of commands allows the developer to initiate long cycles of commands without stopping other procedures. It should be noted that {mdm} Script 4.0 provides options for both synchronous and asynchronous commands, which is unsurpassed flexibility for the developer.

Support for the updated Flash Player 11
Zinc 4.0 has been updated and now supports the latest Flash Player 11 (October 2011 release). Support for Flash Player 11 is a serious and profitable update, as the latter is 1000 times faster in performance compared to Flash Player 10.

With full hardware acceleration of rendering for 2D and 3D graphics, Flash developers can animate millions of objects with “ironed” 60 frames per second. Stage3D support will be available in the 4.0.1 zinc build (late 2011).
More than 150 changes, corrections and bug fixes.
The entire code of the new, fourth Zinc has been updated and revised to provide faster, more reliable and more rational use for users and developers. Literally hundreds of updates, some tricks and changes were taken into account to optimize the source code at a more thorough level.
Zinc 4.0 is the most powerful, most sophisticated and promising tool for building X-platform desktop applications with Flash, Flex and HTML5.

Why choose Zinc 4.0? - you ask.
The experience of more than 100,000 developers from more than 75 countries was applied to develop the new Zinc. Zinc 4.0 is the only and final tool for rapid application development on Adobe Flash. Zinc is a pioneer and innovative leader in the “SWF2EXE” market and continues to strengthen its position from year to year, with unprecedented power, flexibility and unrivaled features.


In conclusion, a comparative table of features of Zinc 4.0:


* - a column of competitors, combines the features of several alternative software tools. In other words, even if you have purchased all the other competitor tools, they still cannot be compared in terms of the set of functionality Zinc 4.0

And finally, the “control shot” ... Zinc 4.0 -free for individual, non-commercial use! Yes, well, straight ... it's hard to refuse such an offer, download and try ourselves in the role of APP DEVELOPER ;)

Zinc 4.0 download page: http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/ Zinc 4.0 documentation: http: // www .multidmedia.com / support / livedocs / 4.0 /