What's the difference between Flash and Flex? I know Flash is more of an animation tool and Flex is used to build web applications but after visiting many Flex built sites, I can't really tell the difference. It seems like whatever you could do in one, you could do in the other. There are many school for flash and flex training Online schools.
Possible Duplicate: What is Adobe Flex? Is it just Flash II?tell me in layman's term as to whats the difference between flex and flash objects. i know that programmatically there are differences and there are difference in the extension but then why do some flex programs have a .swf extension since the extension for flex is swc ?
In my flex project i used one option like Link button . If i like it will be open new page contain more information and components . Which container is suitable one ? Where is used viewstack and stages ?
1- why we need skins for every elements if we can style our application using CSS file. for example in theme Graphite in SDK's Sample consists of both CSS+.fla and skins---.mxml files.
2- How we can create a whole theme with out coding CSS.
Does MXML get compiled down to as3 and then converted to flash bytecode? Also, is there a significant performance penalty to compiling mxml vs compiling as3?
I don't understadn the difference between Flash Pro and Flash Catalyst. I want to make an animated video but things like transitions aren't in Pro (well, unless I program it in, which I don't know how to do). Should I use Catalyst? Can I make vids using it? Is it possible to take something from Catalyst and import it to Flash? Perhaps I can find the coding of transitions in Catalyst and put it in Pro.
I have heard different things in forums but unable to find a concrete answer on the difference between obj[name] and obj.name. Does the compiler treat them differently?
I was wondering, because people do suggest this, but i've never explicitly had it verified:does the flash cs4 compiler actually generate a SWF file, that is more optimized and faster, than the flash cs3 compiler?and what about other compilers? custom as3 compilers, are there faster ones?I don't mean the time it takes to compile the .fla, but the speed of the SWF file.
Possible Duplicate: Difference between e.target and e.currentTarget I don't really understand the difference between these two event.target and event.CurrentTarget and explanation.
I working on a game project in Flash AS3. I need to pass data from one class (Game) to other class objects (Ships) on EnterFrame and performance is starting to be a issue. I was wondering is there a difference in performance between calling to the Ship a direct function or dispatching an event which the Ship can listen.
another question is where should I put the enterframe function. Is it better to use only one enterframe function and call the methods dispatch events from there, or it will be wiser to put the enterframe in the different objects (Ships)? note: some Ships are inactive most of the time.
I am working on this cd-rom and have just reached testing stage for part 1 (of 5). There are lots of interactive activities, video and animations. For the activities, I dont know if I am just too tired but there seems to be items which are visible on my .swf on my computer that sometimes are visible and sometimes are not visible on the cd-rom, also in testing yesterday there sere some activities that seemed to not be working correctly (Althought they perform fine on the desktop version, on a reset of the cd-rom they then seemed to work. Is there anything that I need to take into account for the code being read off a CD to make it more bullet proof? I am stressing out a bit at the Unknown factor- I cannot continue to produce this resource if I cannot guarantee how it will perform in real life?