Flex?
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- boobs
So, I'm getting OK at the ActionScript 3.0.
Makes me wonder, "what's Flex like?"
- rounce0
Awesome
- Llyod0
what's flex?
- and are all the kids doing it?Llyod
- it is a song3point14159
- that's reflexLlyod
- Jnr_Madison0
You can't use flex if your bald I'm afraid Llyod.
- damn.Llyod
- I don't make the rules.Jnr_Madison
- It's a health and safety issue.Jnr_Madison
- dMullins0
Flex is great, depending on what you need to use it for. I learned it recently for a freelance project, and was impressed at the changed in 3.0.
You can download a free 60-day trial from Adobe currently, so just download it for free and check it out.
- boobs0
First boobs question: what can you do with it, that you can't do with Flash?
- dMullins0
Rapid RIA design and deployment.
- Llyod0
Republican Irish Army?
- magnificent_ruin0
does this have something to do with the web?
- dMullins0
I guess the lack of response means you're sleeping, entrenched in the throes of a bottle of liquor, playing about in Flex, or all of the above, but in a dreamstate?
- 1pxsolid0
RIA.. ha. Buzzzzzzz
Flex = backend integration
- Llyod0
I'd be on the look out for the RIA. They blow shit up.
- akoni0
Flex = the awesome for front end work... learn as3 well and you are golden
- monNom0
flex = great for application front end. not so hot for rich/designy websites.
- rounce0
Firstly to answer your question boobs; Flex comes with extra classes for UI design and control, data visualisation, even a lo-fi Window Manager.
Ok, I thought I'd try to be clever last night with the single word post but that's obviously backfired as some peeps have just spouted a load of myths and buzzwords.
"You can download a free 60-day trial from Adobe currently, so just download it for free and check it out." - Or you can download the binaries of the Adobe supported open source version of the plugin for eclipse which is generally rather complete but comes sans the UI builder but if you NEED that then you probably shouldn't be using Flex anyway.
"Flex = backend integration" - No it doesn't, sure there are some extra classes in the Flex specific framework that makes dealing with web services slightly easier but communicating with any (well written) backend would be just as possible in Flash aswell. Flex isn't a magic bullet for RIA dev.
"flex = great for application front end. not so hot for rich/designy websites." - monNom: You mean YOU'RE not so hot at programming responsive clean UIs?
The truth is if you can imagine how it works, you can most likely write it*.
* Some things will take more imagining than others to reach fruition.
- moamoa0
my website is build in flex.. but I dunno what it is.