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
Flash is designers approach .
I cant stand programing and dealing with timeline at the
same time so for me Flex is the way to go.

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Looking for advice from more experienced Flex users here.
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The goal is to create a video template page and we want the
ability to pass sources to this template. Basically, we do a lot of
online training, and want to have one page where any video can
play, regardless of how many videos could be linked to it. We were
wondering if Flex might provide a sleek way of accomplishing that.
I have downloaded the source for a Flex video player (
http://www.fxcomponents.com/flex-video-player/)
and was hoping to use this or something similar to implement. Is
Flex a good tool for what we are trying to achieve?

Sure. You could have any number of links to videos that when
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Scenario of such a Application where Flex and Flash combination is used

Hi ,
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 )
Please help , thanks in advance .

Hi Kiran,
          Basically flex is invented for developing rich internet applications and adobe introduced flash concepts in flex and flex will run on flashplayer.. so indirectly u are working on flash environment... any u are asking for the perticular scenario...
                       Take one example i.e u have an application that is displaying several photos slide by slide in ur website. ( with some animations and other effects that are not available in flex).. at that time u can go for flash developing.. u need to develop that in flash and import that into ur flex application
                  visit ur Tour the flex web and there in flex4 we have some realtime scenarios where adobe already developed a dashbord to display the world map and the density of adobe site users.. they are using ibm ilogix for dashbord..they developed this components in flash and they have used that component in flex ...we dont have some animations that are available in flash and also u can develop some components in flash and import them into ur flex application as swc format.and u can use them in ur application
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so don't confuse in flex builder and flash builder..they are just different versions of the same thing.
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David-
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David Ezzio <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
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Hi, Im getting really confused with vim and its /etc/vimrc config, and the per user ~/.vimrc.
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*Edit
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Last edited by jrussell (2013-04-14 10:21:42)

siriusb wrote:
The configuration files in /etc are for system-wide settings. These are the default settings if not overridden by a user's own settings in their home directory.
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What does sudo? From man sudo
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy.
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Hi, this might sound like a simple question so I apologize...
I have both a copy of flex 2 and 3, and i want to simply code in AS
3.0 not mxml. I referred to the help of both flex 2 and 3, and all
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projects), and it would be cool to get some help or be pointed in
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