----- Original Message ----- From: "mr_j_harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:47 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Fixed Price Contract in Flex with a DataGrid - I never would!
> > You may have seen some of my postings here, concerning my troubles > with mx:DataGrid > > They've changed up somewhat, now I can produce an RTE in my > application: infinite-type UI loops 'and the like' by, say, merely > clicking on an empty row below the row that I added via drag-drop. > It's like, I don't ever want to take my dog and pony show to the > abattoir... > > In light of my experience with software development in general and > Flex in particular, I sure am glad I did not offer a fixed price > contract for the work I am doing. > > How do other people here feel about being confident in being able to > confidently offer fixed price contracts for not-yet-developed software > that they would be expected to put together using Flex? > > I know I never would! I think that most of the problems I have had with Flex have come from the asynchronous nature of the software and binding dependencies. I can't claim to have attempted what you're doing, but in something like 70,000 Flexcoders posts, your extreme problems seem to be fairly unique. So far any difficullties I have experienced have either been of my own inadvert making, or able to be worked around. One thing is for sure, Flex can bite you in the posterior quite easily, especially coming from other development environments and I think the highly asynchronous nature of Flex coupled with the use of binding is responsible for that. Flex is pretty amazing as a product, though I doubt anyone would understand that from your reported experience. Maybe you should build a small example demonstrating how bad Flex is? Paul
