Flex and Flash

Topic double submitted!

This code does the trick...
But, is it the easiest way?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" xmlns:local="*" width="100%" height="100%"
creationComplete="init();" resize="keepProportions();" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public static const FLASH_PROPORTIONS:Number = 475/750;
public var done:Boolean = false;
public function init() : void
done = true;
keepProportions();
public function keepProportions(): void
var height:int;
var width:int;
if ( done )
height = Application.application.height;
width = Application.application.width;
resizeFlash.width = width;
resizeFlash.height = FLASH_PROPORTIONS * width;
trace("Resize");
trace("width: " + resizeFlash.width );
trace("height: " + resizeFlash.height );
]]>
</mx:Script>
<local:ResizeFlash verticalCenter="0"
horizontalCenter="0" id="resizeFlash" />
<mx:Button label="bt1"/>
</mx:Application>

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I am seeing this a lot in Job portals where the companys are asking for the combination of Flash and Flex .
Can anybody please let me know where exactly a combination of such would be required generally .(Means i need a scenario of such a Application where in Flex is used with Flash )
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Hi Kiran,
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Im confused about Flex and Flash?

flex uses Actionscript to develop internet application.
Flash also uses Actionscript to do that. now why i should use
Flex if both using the same language.
is it because Flex has more class libraries ?
when a company or someone asks me why we need to use Flex
instead of Flash , what is the answer for that ?
thanks

IMHO I would say:
Flex is programmers approach to develop apps while
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It's easy Pea...
Flash is a plugin. It runs from withing the browser IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc... It also can be run standalone, via special exe program on Windows platform.
Although this is less common. Here are all the Flash versions: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
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<quote>
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[svn:fx-trunk] 5811: Adding a Flex Builder Flash-Integration and Utilities project to make these files easier for people to work on .

Revision: 5811
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-03-31 11:20:19 -0700 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009)
Log Message:
Adding a Flex Builder Flash-Integration and Utilities project to make these files easier for people to work on. Flash-Integration is really an intermediate swc that Utilities uses. I've also modified the existing Flex Builder project for flex4tests to build against this new utilities project directly.
Also change the way FlashIntegration is built--we no longer have a manifest file and just include-classes FlashIntegrationClasses.as.
QE Notes: -
Doc Notes: -
Bugs: -
Reviewer: Evtim
tests: -
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/flex4test/.actionScriptProperties
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flash-integration/build.xml
Added Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/flash-integration/
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/flash-integration/.actionScriptProperties
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/flash-integration/.flexLibProperties
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/flash-integration/.project
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/utilities/
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/utilities/.actionScriptProperties
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/utilities/.flexLibProperties
flex/sdk/trunk/development/eclipse/flex/utilities/.project
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flash-integration/src/FlashIntegrationClasses.as
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flash-integration/manifest.xml

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