Can flex be used in a procedural rather than descriptive way?

My company is currently using Flash Studio 8 successfully.
We'd like to upgrade to Studio 9 to get ActionScript 3 but God
knows when that will happen. Anyway, so now we are looking at flex
since it can produce stand-alone .SWF files. There may be other
advantaged to flex too since it uses XML which plays nicer with a
source code control systems.
I've used Laszlo before and it didn't work for us. Laszlo
forces you to structure the control hierarchy to reflect your data
hierarchy. This works very well in simple and regular cases but can
be a nightmare in very complex data relationships with a lot of
special cases. In effect, Flash Studio works like a procedural,
third generation language. Laszlo work like a fourth generation
language which is more descriptive than procedural.
Anyway, I called Adobe support and discussed this with one of
their experts and he told me that Flex had constraints similar to
Laszlo. In spite of this comment, I still started looking at Flex
2. After spending a day on it, it seems to me like he is wrong and
I can do what I am trying to do with it.
So, here is my question. I'd like to use Flex to create flat
(where all the controls are at the same level) (in effect) resource
file, like I'd do in Studio 8. I'd then like to control the
behavior of the screen with ActionScript code. So, I should be able
to handle an arbitrarily complex data and user response scenario
with a simple Flex (the GUI part) layout and supporting procedural,
ActionScript 3 code in separate .as files. Am I correct?
Thanks for the help.
Blake McBride

I think I was seeing this same issue, but I wasn't able to pin it down as well as you have - thank you for that. My workaround was to find a way to keep lexicals out of the 'group by' also. I'm sure this won't be adequate all situations though.
Maybe you could try running your data template on different versions of BIP? I noticed that I could get results by running my DT throught the DataProcessor Java api in my (newer) BIP Desktop when, with the same data template, I got no results (zero rows returned from sql) when I tried it in EBS (v 5.6.2).

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