Very Nice! Sam
On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Luke Bayes wrote: > Not sure if this made it through, got rejected on my other email addy. > > Sorry if it's a duplicate. > > lb. > > ------------------------------------ > > Hey Jason, > > > There are a couple of issues that you're facing in your selection of > compilers. Here is some information that may help: > > a) Flash CS3 Authoring: This tool is primarily available to continue > supporting designers. While you *can* write ActionScript 3 that gets > compiled by the 'asc' compiler, you can *not* take advantage of any > code that relies on the Flex 2+ framework. This means that you will > essentially be relegated to rolling your own for just about > everything. This is probably appropriate if you're mostly building > visual in-place marketing widgets like ads or page headers. I'm sure > there are people that would disagree with me, but I will go out on a > limb and say that authoring is not an appropriate tool for building > real applications in ActionScript. It *is* an appropriate tool for > building assets that get embedded in your applications. > > b) Flex Builder: If you're planning on doing any serious development, > you really should purchase Flex Builder. This is an Eclipse plugin and > includes the Flex SDK plus a full IDE. This is most definitely the > tool that you want if you're building applications. The Flex Builder > product is valuable because of it's ability to help you write MXML and > ActionScript code. If you aren't comfortable or interested in using > Eclipse, you don't need this tool. > > c) Flex SDK: The mxmlc compiler comes with the Flex SDK which is free > to download and will even be fully open source (if it's not already). > The SDK alone does not include any development tools. This is just a > handful of compilers and the Flex framework. You should know that > mxmlc does *not* compile .fla files and mxml applications cannot be > compiled with Authoring. You *can* however compile visual assets with > Authoring as SWFs and include those in your Flex applications. > > If you're interested in getting up and running quickly (and for free) > with ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3 or MXML projects, you can do so > using a new open source project called "Sprouts" that I created this > year. > > http://projectsprouts.googlecode.com/ > > This is a Ruby application that will download and install every single > thing you need including compilers, build scripts, project templates > and external libraries (like AsUnit) from a single command in your > terminal. It also makes working with the mxmlc command line compiler > *much* more approachable. (Thanks for the mention Ogla!) > > > Good Luck, > > > Luke Bayes > http://projectsprouts.googlecode.com > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
