Is the AIR Update Required for Flash CS3?
The AIR Update for Flash CS3 allows you more easily create, test, and distribute AIR applications in Adobe Flash CS3. If you are not creating AIR applications, or have no intention of creating AIR applications with Flash, you will not need this update. This update is also not required to produce AIR applications in Flash. However, it does make it a lot easier. As it exists now, for example, Flash CS3 does not contain the definitions required (stored in SWC files) to identify classes and definitions that are unique to the AIR runtime. If you attempt to import or use these classes in a Flash CS3 file, you will more than likely encounter errors when you publish your SWF. Also, if you are developing for the AIR runtime with Flash and wish to test your application, you cannot do so within the Flash authoring environment. Testing your application there only runs the SWF within Flash’s native external Flash Player; it does not use AIR. This means, in order to fully test your movie, you have t
