Flex--we actually demoed them last November at MAX. Hence the familiarity.
I don't know of any way to get rid of the loading message. If you look at
the AS code generated by a Flex app, the loading thing is generated by the
compiler on the _root timeline of the generated SWF. It doesn't even come
from one of the components (it is a component, but it's kicked off from the
timeline). Maybe there's an option somewhere though.
The overhead will be addressed as soon as Flex supports runtime shared
libraries. With this then the classes only have to be downloaded once. I
would say that RSL are critical to the success of Flex, but it's really
strange they weren't made a high-enough priority to be included in 1.0. I'd
expect to see them in a 1.x or at least a 2.0 release.
I also don't expect to see more than a handful of companies actually go into
production with Flex 1.0. The price will keep it to only the largest
companies (my company excluded) and the expected development timelines are
for medium to long term projects. How many people do you know would bet a
half million dollar project on a 1.0 product? That's the price point you're
looking at for ROI over the purchase price of Flex (keeping in mind that
large products typically have more CPU's and $12,000 is just the starting
price).
Sam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:25 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: ...just took 60+ seconds to load "Hello World" in Flex!
>
> On Apr 8, 2004, at 7:41 PM, Samuel R. Neff wrote:
>
> > The second run should be significantly faster, but still a
> lot slower
> > than a
> > Flash "Hello World" app since every app will have the
> 130kb of Flex
> > base
> > classes.
> >
> >
>
> Sam
>
> You seem to have a lot of Flex experience.
>
> Is this just a "Newness of Flex" thing? I hope that as Flex matures
> that repackaging (whatever) will reduce the default overhead of using
> Flex.
>
> btw, is there a way to get rid of the "loading" message that appears
> with the rendering of each FlexFlash page?
>
> New to Flex but trying to learn!
>
> TIA
>
> Dick
>
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