Thanks, Brad, and everyone else for the info... I'll do some more checking into it and see if all this justifies a programming paradigm shift.
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:13 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Flex 2 and Ben Forta > > > > So...what combination of development tools > > and the compiler would make Flex 2 "not free"...? > > From what I understand, with the standard version of flex 2 (not > enterprise), all you are paying for is your IDE "per developer seat". > > You can do it one of two ways: > - You can download Eclips for free, and then purchase the flex "plug in > " for it > - You can purchase a bundled version of eclipse with the Flex stuff > already in it > > After you code your flex, it is compiled to a SWF ONCE, and then you > deploy that SWF to the server just like any other flash animation with > no "special" flex server needed (once again standard- NOT enterprise > edition) > > There is no cost to deploy the Flex site, the only cost is in the > software used to build it. But as Ben said, CFEclipse is a WYSIWYG > editor which simply generates the markup and action script for you. You > can use ANY editor you want (including notepad) to generate your code > and Adobe won't care. They are just confident that their IDE is > superior enough for people to buy it. You can download the compiler by > itself for free if you wish (even though it is built into the $$ IDE) > > > > And what did he show about CFEclipse that was > > so great? > > Well, I have never used Eclipse before, but there were a number of cool > things. You could control-click a cfc name and it would introspectively > give you a list of methods. There was code auto complete for CF, the > flex markup, and action script. When you declared a variable as a > certain type, the IDE would add the appropriate import for you. And > there was some cool things he did that I didn't totally understand were > he would have the IDE generate an action script class to match the > methods and properties of a CFC and vice versa-- so when flash remoting > returned a CFC object the action script would be able to assign it to a > class or something and it would understand what was in it. (PLEASE > correct me here if necessary, I was barely following some of Ben's > examples last night) > And it was super easy to handle some sweet-looking transitions with no > need for a timeline like traditional flash. You would just define two > states, and tell it which transition to use to get from one to the > other, and everything else was taken care of automatically. (That's > probably more of a Flex 2 praise, than a CFEclipse goodie) > > ~Brad > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233783 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
