Lots of folks use other editors, Eclipse is popular, plus it is the
native editor for Flex 2.
If you like FlexBuilder (I do), perhaps you could buy a copy of
Dreamweaver and get MM to let you have a FB license? The fact that FB
is Dreamweaver is the reason you can't have it free.
Tracy
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom Sobut
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:06 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 1.5 Expiry Woes
I'm a enterprise developer who is starting a company focused on RIA
development. Flex is
my tool of choice. For the past five months, I've been learning the
platform, best practices
(love you i::2!), prototyping and promoting applications for my target
industry, trying to
gain mindshare for this wonderful product we call Flex. I'm not yet
developing anything
for profit or deployment.
My dilema is that I don't yet have the capital to buy the very costly
licence for Flex so that I
can continue to explore and prototype. That will come soon. Until
then, my trial copy of
Flex Builder v1.5 expires regularly and I am left scrambling to get it
going again.
Although the Flex 2 alpha is available and I eagerly await it's full
Enterprise glory many
months from now, all of my prototypes have been developed in v1.5 and
some of them
use the YahooMaps Flex component which requires v1.5 as far as I know.
I believe I've tried all options to continue to use Flex Builder 1.5.
I've requested a free
copy for single/non-profit developers...denied.I've wiped down my
hard drive and
reinstalled Flex Builder...doesn't work (but the Flex server is quite
happy to give me
another 60 days).
It's been quite painful begging my Macromedia rep for Flex Builder
licence extensions over
the past few months. My Flex Builder trial is up once again. My
Macromedia rep won't
even respond to my email requests this time round and it's been 10 days
and a few
follow-ups since I've asked. Making things worse, I'm going to present
some of my
prototypes next week and don't really want to resort to a text editor to
modify my
projects.
Are other licence-less developers here experiencing this frustration?
Is there a less
painful way to deal with the expiration/renewal process until my company
needs to
commercially develop and deploy a product?
Looking forward to your feedback.
Tom Sobut
RIA LABS
London, Ontario
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