On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:56 AM, matt stuehler wrote:
Two questions - 1. The client has asked about the feasibility of developing this in Flex instead of Flash. Since I'm only beginning to learn Flex, I can't really answer this. But my simplistic understanding is that, at a high level, Flex is a language for tying together individual Flash components into an overall UI/RIA. So, if you're building a low-level highly customized, unique "component" - Flash is the right tool for that, not Flex. Is this correct?
Basically true, though unique components can be created in Flex/AS3 as well, the process is a bit harder.
2. Assuming 1. is correct, what special considerations are there for developing a Flash movie/widget/component that might be embedded in an HTML page, AND/OR used within a Flex application?
Check out the "FlexComponentKit", which I think is still on labs.adobe.com as a beta. It allows you to wrap MovieClips into a UIComponent in Flash, export them as an SWC, and reference them in Flex. Works really really well, and takes a lot of the effort out of the process of doing it in other ways.
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