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title: Migrate from Flex
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# Migrate from Flex
If you have developed applications using <a href="http://flex.apache.org";
target="_blank">Apache Flex</a>, or Adobe Flex before it, your applications
probably combine MXML and ActionScript files along with resources like images
and audio files, and some of the MXML files have <fx:Script> tags with
ActionScript snippets inside them. If that is the case, you will find yourself
at home working with Apache Royale. The big difference is not so much the code
you use, but the output and what it [...]
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Flex or Adobe Flash fe
Where the changes need to happen is in the MXML files. You built your user
interface using Spark and MX components--containers, controls, and so on. All
those components will need to migrate to their Royale equivalents. You will
find some differences between the components you used and the ones you now have
available, and not all Flex components have equivalents in Royale yet.
-One big change you will notice right away is that the default Royale UI
components come with a basic set of functions, but not with the full range of
behaviors that was loaded into every single Flex UI component whether it needed
it or not. To get exactly the behavior your application needs from a data
display or an input field, you may need to add "beads" to the basic Royale
component. For example, to provide a field where the user can enter a password,
you need to take the basic Royale [...]
+One big change you will notice right away is that the default Royale UI
components come with a basic set of functions, but not with the full range of
behaviors that was loaded into every single Flex UI component whether it needed
it or not. To get exactly the behavior your application needs from a data
display or an input field, you may need to add "beads" to the basic Royale
component. For example, to provide a field where the user can enter a password,
you need to take the basic Royale [...]
-*link to Development tools page goes here...*
+## Royale equivalents for Flex components ##
+Royale is not a one-for-one migration of Flex, for several reasons. A lot of
Flex code presumes, and takes advantage of, features available in the Adobe AIR
environment or the Flash Player plugin. Other Flex elements are more bulky than
they could best be, since they include code built up over many iterations and
designed to cover a wide range of possible events and situations.
+
+The goal of the Royale project is to provide the convenience and speed of
developing in the Flex world while producing a lighter-weight application that
plays well in the HTML-JavaScript-CSS environment. To reach that goal requires
putting off, or finding alternatives for, certain standard Flex components and
functions. The page [Flex equivalents in
Royale](User-interface/Flex-equivalents.html) can help you find what you need
as you work through your migration.
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