Adobe Flex
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- monkeyshine
Anyone know anything about this new app development software?
- MX_OnD0
you mean macromedia flex builder 2??
as in the follow up to flex??
as in the free beta that anyone can download??
- monkeyshine0
um..yes, ok. I know nothing about flex. just saw this html email in my box with adobe written all over it.
so...do you use it?
- MX_OnD0
not as yet, but it's next on the list ;)
there's heaps of tutorials and stuff on it on the labs page though..
plus you get flashplayer 8.5 :-)
- Nac_part20
i have been playing with 2.0...i can pretty much say it will take the place of html some day....(in a manner of speaking)...flex is awesome, its a code authoring environment that when you export an application or document . it utilizes the flashplayer to display content...if you download the 8.5 player be careful, it itself is a bit buggy and a beta of sorts, it was built so basically developers can start playing with 2.0 and not have to turn to garbage like AJAX... the full releases of flex and the flashplayer as of now i think is set for early summer...
- imakedesign0
nac, when flex is released how much will it cost roughly? do you still need to buy flash? what do you need to run flex?
:-)
- UndoUndo0
Mr MX I'm quite in the dark about flex, whats the deal and what does it offer over flash? (in a nutshell)
- Nac_part20
no flex is separate from flash (you just need the flashplayer to view) ... and i believe the builder is going to be free...but the enterprise version is going to cost...
flex exports as an .mxml
any browser can read it, but a type of server would probably be on the side of anything Java, like Jrun... and coldfusion works the best as the app
- Nac_part20
here watch this until i can find the better video with more info and examples
- UndoUndo0
so are my AS skills transferrable?
+ additional ones for flex (i imagine??)
- imakedesign0
thanks!
i read somewhere that flex solves the problems of back button /deeplinking etc
awesome!
- Nac_part20
oh ya, flex is going to be killer...solves a lot of things..
plus yes Undo... your AS skills are going to be more than handy...since all functions for flex are going to be based on AS 3.0
- UndoUndo0
cool, thanks nac whatchin the vid now
:)
- UndoUndo0
cool stuff Nac, it looks like its taking the hard work outta creating flash aps
- Nac_part20
very...if you can DL and play with it, i would encourage you too. It is honestly really easy..pretty incredible stuff...and if you do create anything of course be sure to let me know... i love to see that stuff
- UndoUndo0
no problem, thanks for the hook up with the video. it look sreally interesting and v easy compared to Flash!
:)
- Nac_part20
yea purdee super...just get the skinning down, and youre set ;)