> > I want to design a GUI with the tool that gives me the most > > power, with the least amount of code. > > It would take considerably longer I believe to implement a > competent gui in flash than to hand code in your toolkit of > choice in compiled/interpreted language (eg Swing on Java, > GTK in C, TK In Tcl, wxWindows in Python).
That's probably true, today, especially if you don't know Flash. However, your GUI wouldn't be web-accessible, or even cross-platform in some cases. If you're able to build your GUI in Flash, though, you can use it in your web application, and you can generally rely on it to work on all of the vast number of Flash-enabled browsers. > Flash isn't designed to be an interface toolkit, it is > designed to deliver animation and whizzy interactive > things, let it do what it's best at, leave the interface > display to the various libraries designed to be interface > toolkits (and in the case of web sites, to the HTML). Well, by that argument, we shouldn't be building CGI applications, since HTTP and HTML were designed to deliver static documents, not act as application interfaces! Anyway, Flash isn't designed to just deliver animation and "whizzy interactive things" (form elements are also interactive things, you know) - it's a vector graphics toolkit. So, what you do with it isn't limited to "movies" and splash screens. There's no reason that you can't use it to build more functional GUIs, and there's no reason that those GUIs can't be better and more appropriate than those built with more traditional GUI building tools. If you look at the direction that Flash has taken over its recent history, you'd see that it's becoming more of a programmer's tool and less of a pure design tool. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server � PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
