Re: [flexcoders] Is Flex the wrong technology for widgets? SWF file sizes are too big...

2008-12-16 Thread Josh McDonald
Depending on what parts of the framework you use, you could probably cut it right down by not using an Application as the "root", and instead using a custom UIComponent that implements IContainer (some methods might be stubs, etc). Container has a *lot* of stuff in it. You should be able to lookup

Re: [flexcoders] Is Flex the wrong technology for widgets? SWF file sizes are too big...

2008-12-16 Thread Jamie S
It would be pretty hard to get a Flex app down under 100k. The Framework itself is larger than that. You could try framework caching. But if you really want a small file size, you might have to use Flash. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:10 PM, devenhariyani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently posted a t

RE: [flexcoders] Is Flex the wrong technology for widgets? SWF file sizes are too big...

2008-12-16 Thread Jim Hayes
> (so I don't know) how small I could get the file size for a comparable solution in Flash. Is that the question that you really wanted the answer to? The answer to that will depend on what your widget actually is/does. Without knowing that, I don't see how anyone can really offer an opinion on