There has been a lot of confusion among Flash developer/designers. Some of them even said, during early days of Flex, that Flex is flash killer. Which was totally misconception.
I posted something around Macromedia MAX 2005, http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/macromedia_flex/macromedia_flex_and_flash.php It's old post, should answer some of the questions. -abdul On 11 Apr 2007 06:43:39 -0700, Peter Farland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There should be a ton of articles online discussing this and I see Abdul gave a good summary before. Here's my quick summary here... both Flex and Flash applications are ultimately compiled down to a SWF file and run in the Flash Player. They both use ActionScript to write programmatic logic and they can make use of graphic, video and audio assets. However, the way in which the applications are built is very different. Flash applications are typically built with the Flash Authoring tool and focus around stages, timelines, labels and script blocks to control program flow. Flex applications are typically built with Flex Builder; the concept of a "timeline" is effectively absent. Developing Flex applications should feel like a hybrid between web development and traditional GUI application development, but with a rich set of pre-built components. The Flex developer uses an XML language to declaritively layout the UI and writes formal classes to extend existing components or write completely new logic. From Flex 2 we target Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3.0. Pete ------------------------------ *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ed Capistrano *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:18 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] The difference... Im a newbie in flex but I did studied developing flash apps(mainly for the web)including its language as2.0. I wonder whats with flex and flash appz? Any significant diff. between the two? __________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121
