If you are building an application-like user interface with buttons, forms, dialog boxes, etc, I would really recommend Flex. MXML lets you write such things very concisely. It has a powerful layout engine and a nice set of containers which automate a lot of stuff you'd have to write by hand otherwise.
If your program is mostly animation and graphics, I guess Flex wouldn't have a lot to offer. Flex is certainly a big chunk to add to your binary size, so I wouldn't choose it lightly. We wrote playcrafter.com in Flex and have no regrets about the choice. You can certainly write anything in plain AS3 that you can write in MXML with the Flex library. You just need to decide if the code in the Flex library is code you'd need to be writing anyway. Dave On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Lehr, Ross (N-SGIS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I guess this is somewhat off topic, but I'm new to the whole Flex thing. > What are some of the reasons one would build something in Flex instead > of Flash? Is it just a preference thing, or are there real technical > reasons one should build a particular app in Flex? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
