Darron, you're right for basic extensions.
BUT consider the following: - flex does address some issues that are the main reason behind many lib efforts (AnimationPackage for instance). It would not be advisable to use a tweening engine other than the one included in Flex for the sake of simplicity and mantainability. Not to mention the work done by layout manager - flex coders are encouraged to work with much more abstract concepts (components and a pseudo document model structure rather than movieclips and the drawing API). A flex library should be built having this in mind. Many libraries use the basic properties _width, _height, _xscale,etc... rather than the component counterparts width, height.... - Coding patterns have matured and made their way through the classes that ship with flex. Mix-In / decorator, Singleton and others are implemented in a consistent way. Some old as2 libs follow their own implemetations. Once again, a point against neatness. - Even debugging is completely different. This is what pushed as2units evolution into flexunit (or sth like that). So, of course that there are some concepts and code that can be saved from old flash as2 libs (utilities and other classes). But for the sake of order and good practice we should avoid carrying over bad practices and useless code into a new Flex library. Bottomline: Unless a flash library adds 0 garbage, a fresh start for a fresh technology is the wise thing to do in my opinion. @ On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:02:59 -0500, Darron J. Schall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although Flex is the "new kid on the block," Flash developers have been > using ActionScript 2 for quite some time, and everything you ask for > pretty much already exists (minus the flex components and validators). > > http://www.as2lib.org/ > http://www.person13.com/ascblibrary/ > http://proto.layer51.com/ > http://members.shaw.ca/flashprogramming/wisASLibrary/wis/index.html > > Those are just a few. I'm sure google will help find more. > > -d > > Aldo Bucchi wrote: > > >I wonder if there is anyone already walking this road and I have missed it. > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- ::::: Aldo Bucchi ::::: mobile (56) 8 429 8300
