Flex...is it really that good?

I hear all these things about flex being a rapid development
environment for flash apps. I have been using flash for quite some
time, I don't really use the timeline nor do any timeline scripting
I just use AS3 classes. So I think flex may be good for me. So I
download the trial and so far I am not very impressed. It seems to
me like just using markup (mxml) to layout and control components
but outside of the components theres not much you can do? (I am not
saying this is the way it is, just the way it seems to be so far in
my very little experience with it) I tried to make a new Sprite()
and it wouldn't let me because it didn't extend the core mx
component. So far to me it seems like Flash is like C++ and I can
use AS to create everything, and Flex is like VB.
I plain on reading the programming flex 3 book by o'reilly
scheduled for release next month, and I think I really must be
missing something because most people swear by flex, I just don't
see it yet. But as an actionscript developer if flex can make like
easier for me I would really want to understand it.
Please note I am not saying flex is not good...I am just
saying I dont understand what makes it good...and I would like to
hear reasons that make flex good (over programming in the flash
IDE).
What are your thoughts?
Thanks

"john isaacks" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
>I hear all these things about flex being a rapid
development environment
>for
> flash apps. I have been using flash for quite some time,
I don't really
> use the
> timeline nor do any timeline scripting I just use AS3
classes. So I think
> flex
> may be good for me. So I download the trial and so far I
am not very
> impressed.
> It seems to me like just using markup (mxml) to layout
and control
> components
> but outside of the components theres not much you can
do? (I am not saying
> this
> is the way it is, just the way it seems to be so far in
my very little
> experience with it) I tried to make a new Sprite() and
it wouldn't let me
> because it didn't extend the core mx component. So far
to me it seems like
> Flash is like C++ and I can use AS to create everything,
and Flex is like
> VB.
>
> I plain on reading the programming flex 3 book by
o'reilly scheduled for
> release next month, and I think I really must be missing
something because
> most
> people swear by flex, I just don't see it yet. But as an
actionscript
> developer
> if flex can make like easier for me I would really want
to understand it.
>
> Please note I am not saying flex is not good...I am just
saying I dont
> understand what makes it good...and I would like to hear
reasons that make
> flex
> good (over programming in the flash IDE).
>
> What are your thoughts?
There are a lot of people who use Flex Builder to edit Flash
as files,
because it's way better with things like code hinting and
shortcut keys.
That alone will save you huge amounts of time.
I'm not sure about what you mean "outside of the components".
The
components contain HUGE amounts of functionality that would
take you YEARS
to reproduce from scratch, so that's like saying "if it
weren't for that big
hole in the ground, the Grand Canyon wouldn't be all that."
And you can
modify and extend these pretty much infinitely. And if there
aren't any
that do what you like, you can create your own from scratch.
So, yes, the
bulk of what you get from Flex is the components. But to
dismiss them is
missing the point.

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