Have you seen http://www.minimalcomps.com/ ? They're just controls, so no layout assistance, but they're very handy and much more lightweight than the flex controls.
Piers On 10 Jun 2010, at 20:46, Jim Andrews wrote: > I'm a bit confused as to how to proceed with Flash. I've been using Director > for the last 11 years. > > You can see the sort of (Director Shockwave) apps I like to create at > http://vispo.com/dbcinema/sw/sw.htm and http://vispo.com/jig/arteroids/exe . > These apps contain menus, spin controls, drop-down menus, and similar types > of controls, and generally lots of them. But they also contain, in the case > of http://vispo.com/dbcinema/sw/sw.htm , high-performance generative art. > They're both very 'interactive interface' oriented and also very > high-performance-art-oriented. Windowing, menuing, dialog boxes, and > interactive controls are important to them. But so is lots of room for the > art. > > I don't really care about filesize being bulked up by Flex. High speed access > is common, these days. But if Flex is slow in performance, that's the more > important thing, to me. Is it? How is it in terms of speed? > > How would you approach making the above sorts of apps in Flash? Would you > create them as ActionScript projects or would you use Flex? > > ja > http://vispo.com > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jer Brand" <[email protected]> > To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:03 PM > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex generative art??? > > >> Flex is for RIA's and helps you with layouts and common controls and doesn't >> really provide anything useful for generating art with either vectors or >> drawing to a sprite. With the framework itself bulking up the size of your >> swf and consuming additional resources, it's not really a good thing. >> >> The generative art I typically use straight ActionScript with a library of >> choice -- Hype (http://www.hypeframework.org/) being particularly awesome >> for that kinda thing. >> >> There's nothing stopping you from using Flex / Flash Builder as your editor >> though. Just create an "ActionScript" or "Flash Professional" project. >> >> If you're just looking for ActionScript generative art, I'm fairly partial >> to http://levitated.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
