Jon Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2/8/2002 6:24:23 PM: > >stas wrote: >> So you want to design your GUI in Flash > >I want to design a GUI with the tool that gives me the most power, with > the least amount of code.
It would take considerably longer I believe to implement a competent gui in flash than to hand code in your toolkit of choice in compiled/interpreted language (eg Swing on Java, GTK in C, TK In Tcl, wxWindows in Python). >> re-invent every little widget? >It's called originality. Take an html select box widget for example. It >takes almost no code to create and stlye to create any kind of look >compared to what it takes to create in say CSharp, which I have been >working with lately. I long for style sheets when doing a form >component, just because it's what I'm used too. It's called consistency, and that is the driving force behind toolkits in the first place, it is much easier for the user if one programs "checkbox" looks and works the same as other program's checkboxes. Not to mention that it vastly increases code reuse and helps to enforce a modular approach for the engineer. Flash isn't designed to be an interface toolkit, it is designed to deliver animation and whizzy interactive things, let it do what it's best at, leave the interface display to the various libraries designed to be interface toolkits (and in the case of web sites, to the HTML). --- James Sleeman ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
