Thanks everyone for all the feedback. > Are speaking of Flex 1.5 or Flex2? >
I'm particularly interested in Flex2, but since it is so new, i was just interested in whether there was already an established component community. It sounds like third-party > If you are speaking of Flex 2, it would almost be virtually impossible to > use a no-flexframework component in a Flex app. You would have to implement > so many things. > I was not implying that the components should not use the Flex Framework (i agree that they would probably have to), i just was interested in component controls/widgets that are not provided out-of- the-box as part of the flex2 framework (like the components of the type given in my example). > I have been working on many custom components for Flex2, some that you have > mentioned. Since we are still in beta1, so are my components. I have a > feeling, the third party component market will exlode in 1 year(not to > mention open source components). > So i will just have to wait a while:-) > There are just to many things a good developer could make for clients that > even competition will be mute on some components becasue they are so > specailized. > > It's not like the Flash component market where any one and their brother > could put up a cheesy site and say they "sell components". > > There is another angle here that I think clients will want and that is a > standardized documentation presentation. I think any 3rd party developer > that can create fantastic docs for their components will be a success(IE > following the path of Adobe's docs to begin with). > I agree that well structured and documented code and API is important. > Anyway, it's funny this list does not talk about 3rd party components more, > but I am sure they will be when Flex2 goes public. Flex2 is components and > that in itself makes this a great market to do great things in. > > Peace, Mike > Thanks again Mike. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
