perhaps that's a bit of a problem that flex has; any flex app using default components and skin will look like it has been build in flex any flex app using custom components /custom skin will look like it has been build in flash
so if I try to find cool flex apps.. well I haven't seen many because the cool ones are hiding too well :) I wish there were some good examples online of advanced skinning with flex, maybe I'm not looking into the right places, but all the examples of flex that I looked into made me shudder and turn quickly back to flash,simply because most examples/tutorials use the default skins and looks horrible. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, 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 > -- M.A. van't Kruis http://www.malatze.nl/ _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
