Create game with Flex?

Hi all
this might be a stupid question, but me really not well
understand what Flex was, and what the Flex purpose.
me have download the trial version of flex, and found it seem
more focus on coding and exclude the drawing things which similar
to Flash.
my question : is it possible to create Flash game with Flex ?
what could be done in Flash is it possible to done in Flex
too?
thanks

hi,
With flex you need to envoke the filereference function save. Because of the security sandbox you can not programmatically save files or create folders, you need to open a windows file browse box then the user can create a folder or save a file.
private function testme():void
var fi:FileReference = new FileReference();
fi.save("hello"); <=== this would open a system file save dialogbox
David.

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