Well, to be fair to Adobe, they had a sweet deal when they could build
Flexbuilder off the Eclipse sourcecode. Eclipse was not built for
Flash, AFAIK, it was built as a general code editor (mostly Java focused
I think initially), and to get it more integrated with Flash, they
probably did as much as they could given the time to get Flexbuilder 2
out the door. I'm SURE they are working towards tighter integration
with the Flash IDE and vice versa. Just know that Flexbuilder 2/3 is a
fairly young product, I don't think it's really fair to call the present
"crappy", it's a great tool if you look at the big picture and where
things are headed. One of the things Adobe talked about at Max in
Chicago when presenting Thermo is that it may (or may not) one day be
part of Flexbuilder, it's not for certain it will be a stand-alone tool
(but then, it's also not for certain it will ever be made public at
all).
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development
eTools & Multimedia
Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clinton D. Judy
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] RE: Flex, Thermo, Flash - Why Thermo?
Make Flash & Flex Happy Together...
Gosh, I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to figure out how
to do this one application for a personal project, and it could honestly
use a 50-50 blend of Flash and Flex. I think it's weird that a third
application has to come out to bridge Flash and Flex together. Why can't
the two become slightly more like each other, to the point where I can
just use Flex and AS for components and code, then use Flash to decide
what those components are going to look like and where they're going to
go? The future is glorious, but the present is crappy...
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Winter
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] RE: Flex, Thermo, Flash - Why Thermo? Make
Flash & Flex Happy Together...
Jaime,
Nice to hear someone else feels similar to the way I do
regarding this
topic.
I really don't want to come off on this thread as being unhappy
with
Flex or Flash. I LOVE flex, I love Flash, I love Actionscript
3.0, the
guys and girls on the Flash & Flex teams are seriously my
heroes.
I'm sure this topic has cropped up in Adobe as I've heard it at
several conferences and flex camps. I think it's a healthy
discussion
and probably the absolutely right forum to post this on as I
don't
know too many designers that hang out here.
The bottom line is that this argument is nothing new. Designers
have
been trying to convince coders of how important design is for
years
and years.
Coming from the design world myself, then going back to school
for
computer science, this topic was always a struggle for me to
convince
my fellow coders of how important it is to pay attention to
designers.
(A perfect example these days is Apple)
I'm sure things will improve in future versions of both
applications!
Wish we could fast forward to Flex 5 and Flash CS5.
Justin Winter
Useflexmore.com
