1. Nope. If you are in Atlanta August 3rd, New York August 16th, or in Vegas October 23rd, I'll be showing how you can lay the funk using Flash & other design elements in Flex applications. You can skin a LOT of the components via CSS; some need code, but it's easier to do than it is in Flash 8.
2. Familiar workflow to developers and declaritive XML layout seperates your GUI from your code; less coupling means your code doesn't break when the design changes. Those are the big 2. The others are built-in layout engine, lack of initialization issues, better components, and better coding IDE. The new player, Flash Player 9 is a huge deal. The new ActionScript virtual machine, ActionScript 3, DisplayList, binary sockets, organized language, etc. etc. etc. 3. Flex 2 SDK w/ Charting is what I recommend. I'll let others explain FDS. 4. Flash takes Flex to the bank with font handling; total pain in the ass. A lot of things were accidentally made private in the base classes, so it's somewhat challenging to ensure you don't modify the original code. Not all filters are implemented CSS. The bloody NavBar class utilizes the DisplayList for order; this makes it impossible to make z-depth sorted tabs for example. Everything else is pimp! ----- Original Message ----- From: "bristondavidge64086" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: [flexcoders] considering a flex purchase Greetings, My company is considering switching to flex for our data intensive flash projects, however i have a few questions before i decide. 1. am i correct in assuming you can only apply a certain 'look'. all the sample apps ive checked out have the same component look to them. apparantly just changed w/ css. 2. Whats the main advantage of using flex over a straight flash solution? 3. if i was to buy flex what all do i need? currently we run on a windows box. 4. flex complaints? thanks so much. Briston luminopolis -- 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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/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/
