I love the responses so far. It's really helping me wrap my head around the division of the two tools. I'm going to take Jason's advice and just jump in and do something in Flex (probably using FlashDevelop) and see where I come out. The comparison example is definitely enticing and helps me realize that I can't objective until I have a taste. Even if it only makes my UI creation easier, I suppose it will be worth it.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Merrill, Jason < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> With both you can be efficient. As a proof, all the best Flash sites > are Flash, not Flex. > > How do you know? I have seen some amazing Flash sites I thought were build > in the Flash IDE, and I found out later they were Flex apps, with some > really great skinning going on. I have also seen some flex-like sites that > were cool that I discovered were Flash IDE made sites. But in a lot of > cases, there is no real way to tell what the development environment was - > maybe if you pulled apart the .swf you could tell, but other than that, it's > difficult. > > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media ยท GCIB & Staff > Support L&LD > > Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash > Platform Developer Community > Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative > Learning Blog and subscribe. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:17 AM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Flash > > > > > Getting back to the original question, Ross, another benefit of the > > Flex compiler - whether you're writing MXML or AS3 - over the Flash > > IDE is that all the source files for a Flex app (barring assets - > > images etc.) are text files. Text files are much easier to deal with > > in version control systems such as SVN or CVS - and version control > > systems are critical for development within a group of developers. > > I may be totally martian here, but ... hmmm, besides the FLA part, > you can externalize everything in text files too (no code in the FLA, > just assets (and even...) and external AS files). > > This is making me think that, as always, there are big differences > between the framework provided and the technology used. > > Start from nothing, use Flash, try to build up a framework (at least, > some app building logic), all on your own, and/or with the help of > other Flashcoders. > Then, you discover Flex, and this gives you the framework (ie: > geniuses thought about this for you). You stick to the framework, > learn to structure code / applications, and then get on the next > part: being efficient. > > With both you can be efficient. As a proof, all the best Flash sites > are Flash, not Flex. But all the best Flash apps are Flex, because it > is ... just simply ... simpler. > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
