RE: [flexcoders] Dumb newbie question: Flash 8 vs. Flex Builder

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:10:36 -0700

Hello,
 
the design center of the two products is very different.

To oversimplify:
 
If you are building "rich interactive content/media" and your background is with products like Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/Director use Flash authoring
If you are building "rich internet applications" and your background is with things like computer science/Eclipse/VisualStudio/Java, use FlexBuilder
 
They can be used together (with some limitations today because of the AS2/AS3 difference) using Flash authoring to create media, animation, components that you might use in the Flex application.
 
 
Again, this is an oversimplification--many people span these worlds in interesting ways and I think today there are many expert Flash users who are using both.
 
Next step: both products have free trials.  Download them, use the tutorials and decide which will let you achieve your goals.
 
-David

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeremyrichman
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Dumb newbie question: Flash 8 vs. Flex Builder

Apart from that Flex Builder 2 is built on ActionScript 3 and Flash 8
is still on 2, can someone explain to this complete newbie why one
would choose to develop in one over the other?

(I'm trying to evaluate both to see which one would let us do what we
want to do and finding they are hard enough to learn to use, let alone
figure out what each one is intended for that makes it different from
the other.)

Thanks!

Jeremy

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