Yes. I use this heavily. It's an absolute essential part of my workflow when creating Flex apps, that have a very high bar for the UX, especially when the UX involves detailed animations.
- superabe On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Cortlandt Winters <c...@cortwinters.net>wrote: > Yes. It used to be fairly clunky and very error prone, probably from the > two using different compilers by default that could easily get out of synch > with so many sdk versions out there (or at least that is my initial guess > as to why), but at least as of Flash cs5.5 and flex 4.6 it has become > pretty nice and a core part of my workflow. I can't imagine doing either > flex or flash development without doing it just as David describes here. > It's much easier, more efficient and natural than breaking things up into > pieces and then importing and reassembling them in flex. > > Without catalyst and with design mode going away, I'd bet that this is the > most popular method for bringing complex visuals into flex. Expanding on > these capabilities to make exporting flex themes easier is probably the > best feature that the flash ide could focus on in their next release imho. > > I recenty showed a friend how to do it and though there were a lot of > little mysterious finicky steps to make sure things were exported correctly > and using the correct package names the first time, once it worked, he was > pretty excited about how simple and repeatable the process was in the end. > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:05 PM, David Coleman < > david_coleman_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I recently oversaw development of a game that heavily used > fla->swc->flex. > > Lots of fancy animations and stuff were done in an FLA, then exported to > > an SWC with class names etc... and then a Flex4.6 app was wrapped around > > them providing application logic, and facebook integration. Don't know > if > > this is relevant to you, but the game was released recently (has a ton of > > users) and is: https://apps.facebook.com/houseoffun/ > > > > It's not common in my experience, but it is a path that *is* taken often > > enough to be of mention. > > > > -Dave > > > > > From: cfram...@adobe.com > > > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > > > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:17:04 -0700 > > > Subject: anyone use Flex Component Kit for Flash? > > > > > > Does anyone use the the flash/flex integration feature (aka the Flex > > Component Kit for Flash) that allows you to create components with Adobe > > Flash Professional and export them for use with Flex? > > > > > > See > > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/flash/UIMovieClip.html > > > > > > Pre-Flex 4 the Flex Component Kit for Flash was available as a separate > > download but Flex 4 shipped with it in > > frameworks/projects/flash-integration. Unfortunately there are binaries > in > > this directory. > > > > > > Carol > > > > >
