Hi Andrew, I can offer some thoughts. Your description is pretty much on the money there. It's more formal and a bit more rigid, with both the pros and cons that come with that.
One thing I can definitely suggest. Focus on As3 rather than the flex user interface framework itself at first. Though some of the high level layout concepts are similar, the logic that they use is very different. As are what you can and might use constraints for. The layout rules for flex are also much more complicated than those for flash or laszlo and I think you'll have a much more pleasant entry if you save learning about layout until after you've done something fun with the language itself. You really want the builder tool to create your layouts, at least at first - and probably until you become fairly expert. Finally as3 will eventually be useful as a flash or laszlo developer as well, so you improve your skills with all three when you focus on it. Good luck with all, -Cort On 16 Apr 2007 05:56:47 -0700, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been living in the Laszlo world for a few years now, and coming around to Flex has been pretty jarring. While the languages are somewhat similar, I keep bumping into differences and am kind lost in kinda "grokking" Flex. Anyone know enough about both to post a comment like "It's like Laszlo only with namespaces and a stricter scripting language" or something like that?
