I'd rather to sit and wait the release day of Flex 2. There's only several days left (next week?) it will save your time a lot with the official release but not beta version. You could buy or try it or use SDK only.
George --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "sourcecoderia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO a community is not at all built this way, any answer is better > then no answer. For developers we ask a question if it goes without > response we think either they are ignoring the question, can't be > bothered, or it's a bug. Since the first thought is that they can't > be bothered we continue to try and find a solution to the problem, > until completely frustrated. > > Theses things are very important (to me at least) when choosing to > switch from a dot net development environment to something such as > flex. I've been working with flex for a year now, and of course I'm > very happy with it, however I feel that the community involvement > from adobe is rather lacking. > > You can't hope to build a solid community that supports it self, we > are not the experts, you are. We need your help, and you need our > help. But; the communication, and participation in the building of > the community has to work both way's. I've answered far more > questions then I have had answered, I participated in the alpha > testing, I've reported bug's in this forum. All this I'm very willing > to do, and continue doing. However your community support people > could at least take the time and read the question, and either > confirm it as a bug, not possible, or give an idea of where to look. > > I'm not unhappy with Flex, I'm rather impressed and energized. > Learning a new language, and platform is difficult, and time > consuming. > > Why are there no tutorials except the few you have done to get people > up to speed, where is all the learn by example stuff, tips, general > community building. Surly you can invest in some full time community > support personnel. > > Flex is moving Adobe into a developer realm, as apposed to the > designer realm. I think if you hope to convince the developer realm > (a more demanding task) community involvement from Abode needs to be > greatly increased. A couple blog entries a week will not do it. A > couple of questions answered here, and there will not do it. We need > to see that your behind us, that you want to help us succeed with > your product, that you continue to listen, and that you're doing > everything humanly possible to help get us up to speed. > > Flex has the potential to be more then just some other platform. In > order to go head to head with MS, and unlock the dedicated developer > community they've built, you need to greatly increase your community > involvement. > > Hopefully in posting this I've not managed to get on the spam/ignore > list of all Adobe support :) > > > Here are some example things with no response, I'm sure if asked, > every person in this forum could repost at least 1 or 2 unanswered > questions. Any answer is better then none. > > Garbage collection and removeChild [Flex 2 beta 3]? > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/40262 > > > E4X Interpreter: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/40342? > threaded=1&var=1&p=1 > > I can't get a xml chain to bind here. > > [Bindable] > public var boundtarget:XML = new XML > (<item><namex>Jason</namex></item>); > private var owatch:ChangeWatcher; > > private function Init_TargetBinding():void{ > //build the array for the property chain > owatch = BindingUtils.bindProperty(text1, "text",this, > [ "boundtarget","namex"]); > trace(owatch.isWatching()); > } > > <mx:TextInput id="text1" width="100%"/> > > as well as being able to do the below > > BindingUtils.bindProperty( txtField, "text", this, > ["xdata","item","(@id=='3456')","description"] ); > > > > Bug confirmation please ? Felx 2.0 b3 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/39228 > > FileReference upload bytes FB2 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/35364 > > > Still problems with Tree, and drag and drop Flex 2.0 b3 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/37927 > > Cursor questions Flex 2.0 B3 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/38461 > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- 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/
