Flex on the brain
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009I finally made my first effort at checking out Flex builder. I played around with it as I was through a Flex tutorial on gotoAndLearn.com. Now, what I loved about it was not only the simplicity in visually building an application but I also loved how the application populates the code in the MXML. Very slick. Of course, it’s AS3 based and I’m still working on learning that, but I’m anxious to add it to my skill sets.
I’ve actually pondered on leaving AS2 in the past and just pushing my self-education in the area of AS3. The fundamentals are basically the same and you can still code on the main timeline (not on the MCs or buttons, mind you)….but you also have the ability to take the Flash applications up a notch by building the code strictly in external files. With that idea in mind, you’re seriously creating the most basic “shell” file possible..no content within whatsoever…just a reference to external code which handles everything.
Slick.