Diff between aciotnscript & flex

[ranacseruet]

Hi,
Anyone please let me know, what is the basic diff between flex & action script . I am now working with action script 3.0, how difficult it will be if i want to move to flex?

Thanks

[rawmantick]

ActionScrip is the language of flash player (flash virtual machine) that controls flash applications.

Flex (SDK) is an SDK (Software Development Kit), that includes:

1. Flex framwork for creating flash application fast with advanced intaerfaces/data bindings and so on;

2. MXMLC compiler for compiling mxml source code (declarative xml-based code for making interfaces anf more) and actionscript source code into flash virtual machine bytecode. The copiler additionally supports metatags of many different usages.

[lordofduct]

in lamens terms...

Flex is AS3 with a framework on top of it to make it easy to create graphical interfaces for your app with out the need for the graphics manager that is Flash CS3/4



It's really nice and helps a lot in making strong applications. But the problem I always run into when working is everyone wants everything editable and compilable through Flash CS3... so I always end up writing my app in Flex Builder as a Actionscript Project and just creating a dummy fla. All the people I do work for find Flex so complex (especially because of this confusion right here in your question) and really take the assumption they need to be a programmer to get it... and well they're right... and it just scares them away. I mean, come on, that's why they're having me make it!

[ranacseruet]

thanks for ur reply. Now, if I want to move a application from flash9 to flex , will it be very much complex?

[rawmantick]

If you just want to re-compile them - then no, it's not hard. If you want to "make the same" in flex - you have to learn flex, which is a blow your mind at glance... In fact for easy application flex development is not even a development. It looks like "i want this here and that there" - and everything works! Declarative programming...

[ranacseruet]

well, thanks. I will give it a try....