My question is why separate development environments... Could
FlexBuilder2 not be rolled into the Flash IDE? I don't know enough
about Flex to say for sure, but it would make the picture a lot
clearer if mxml was just another way to work in the flash ide
On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:58 AM, Theodore E Patrick wrote:
My question for the Flex people is this, what does Flex bring to the
table that I can not already do with 04 Pro (not counting the new
AS 3.0)?
Allot!
1. There are tons of details in building apps in Flash 2004 Pro
that just
get removed when using Flex. All the small painful lessons that you
needed
to know disappear as they are built into the Flex Framework. This
allows you
to focus on the actual application you are building.
2. Better components and more of them. Containers, VBox, Repeaters,
oh my!
3. Larger applications. Building very large scale applications in
Flex is
very feasible where it was hard to do this with Flash 2004 Pro. You
can
reuse blocks of MXML in Flex as a component.
4. MXML generates AS Classes. MXML is a code generator, it takes a
simple
XML hierarchy and generates an AS class representing your app just
before
compilation. As MXML is translated before compilation, tags can
provide
embedding of graphics, component generation, and UI generation that
is very
exact and detailed. In Flash the hierarchy of an application is
hidden from
the developer, where in Flex the hierarchy is directly what is
added into
the MXML XML tree. Flex is right aligned.
I felt the same thing about Flex 10 months ago. It took being
dropped into a
Flex project to see it for myself. You can build much larger scale
applications in Flex than you can in Flash and in Flex they are 20
times
easier to maintain and change ongoing. Team development is also
enhances
with Flex. As apps are mostly ASCII text, Flex is easy to work with in
version control.
Take the leap and learn Flex. It is one of the best things you can
do long
term within the Flash Platform. You will loath learning a new
toolset at
first but soon you will be writing application faster than before
and with
less hassle. Plus as you know Flash, you can extend Flex with it!
I though for a while that Flex was going to automate me out of a
job. The
reality is that once you know it, the project scope in Flex is much
larger.
I am working on better projects and earning a good bit having
learned Flex.
My 2 Cents,
Theodore Patrick
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