On a productivity basis, I totally agree with you. Flex made Flash
take off. Working with Flash and teams was some hard task.
Now .... I am all on my own, reinventing the wheel, and I feel happy
and confident with this, no team, no versionning, even no components.
I am nearing the end of a gallery application developpment. I don't
know how it would have been possible to make the app look as it is
with Flex ....but I know it would have taken twice less time, AND
overall look and feel would have been cut by two (I did some serious
integration there).
When things are working, I do prefer personnality over technicity.
Reusability ? yes, and no. I reuse my brain, that's it. ... and, of
course, parts of my code :)
but I am a Flex virgin (let's say so), so this message is personal,
of no help, and no consequence....
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Cedric Muller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Getting back to the original question, Ross, another benefit of the
Flex compiler - whether you're writing MXML or AS3 - over the Flash
IDE is that all the source files for a Flex app (barring assets -
images etc.) are text files. Text files are much easier to deal with
in version control systems such as SVN or CVS - and version control
systems are critical for development within a group of developers.
I may be totally martian here, but ... hmmm, besides the FLA part,
you can
externalize everything in text files too (no code in the FLA, just
assets
(and even...) and external AS files).
Yep - but to be honest the .fla still contains all the links to the
external assets. If one developer alters the library and saves the
.fla file; and another developer does the same thing, it's very hard
to reconcile the two different versions.
Using Flex and embeds - or .properties files - it's very easy to get
around that issue, because the list of links to assets are in a text
file. Most good source control systems will sort that out for you
without you having to care. :-)
Don't get me wrong, in many cases it's not an issue. But in an app or
framework of any size with more than a couple of developers on it, it
can save a lot of frustration. :-)
Ian
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