[osflash] hello + request

[Alvise Nicoletti]

Ok, so I was just looking for the wrong software (flex is what I was 
searching for).

Thank you for the tour ;)

Now I'm looking some flex guides to understand it's limit without the 
adobe and java softwares installed on the server.
> Well, you might want to look at Flex which also makes .swfs then for
> your Website development, it all depends on the kind of website you want
> to build.  Flash is great for well, really flashy websites - annd it's
> metaphor of the timeline is what it is because it grew out of an
> animation tool.  But you can also do neat flashy sites with Flex, though
> Flex is more for RIA type sites (Rich Internet Applications).  You can
> use Flash without much use of the timeline to create sites too, if you
> learn enough Actionscript to do that.
>
> Jason Merrill
> Bank of America  
> GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development 
> eTools & Multimedia 
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> Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org 
>>> [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of Alvise Nicoletti
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:00 PM
>>> To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [osflash] hello + request
>>>
>>> Merrill, Jason ha scritto:
>>>       
>>>>>> Let me se... so I could do all the 
>>>>>>             
>>> coding/parsing-libraries part as 
>>>       
>>>>>> .as classes, and after that use flash for the graphical part, 
>>>>>> including the text (finally, I just want to load content) with it.
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>> Yes, but load text as XML or as  a Webservice.  
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>>> I was playing with adobe
>>>>>> flash some minutes ago and it even sucks as graphical-animation 
>>>>>> interface, so I imagine how much crappy it can be as coding 
>>>>>> platform.
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>>>>>>             
>>>> Hmmm, rather cynical.  It's not primarily a graphic design 
>>>>         
>>> tool, Adobe 
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>>>> has other tools for that, but for animation you think it 
>>>>         
>>> sucks?  What 
>>>       
>>>> out there is so much better in your opinion?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>>> If it is, can you help me to set up the softwares? the rest of 
>>>>>> course is mine task ;)
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>> I think you're asking the wrong list - osflash is about opensource 
>>>> flash I would start with a beginner Flash list and also 
>>>>         
>>> read the help 
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>>>> and tutorials out there, that's an extremely open-ended 
>>>>         
>>> question. No 
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>>>> offense, but we're not here to do all the work for you! ;)  
>>>>         
>>> try and be 
>>>       
>>>> more specific in your question, rather than "how do I create this 
>>>> piece of software?"
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> No, you misunderstood me :D
>>>
>>> I'm just asking some help to setup the "two softwares - one 
>>> flash application" part...
>>>
>>> Of course, as I said, the rest is mine task ;)
>>>
>>> About the flash critic, I don't know what better there can be 
>>> around, but it feels like the "assembler of the web 
>>> animation", making the coder jump from an animation to 
>>> another cause the entire animation is all timed from a 
>>> beginning to an end.
>>> I'm not an expert of graphics (yet), but as a programmer 
>>> classes, istances, object oriented, event calls, would have 
>>> been better than that "timeline" with hard-to-understand 
>>> mechanisms of "after-applied-effects".
>>> That mechanism can be good for flash cartoons or films, but 
>>> not for websites developing.
>>>
>>> When I was joung a played a lot with a software for kiddies 
>>> to design games, it was a lot better in it's logic.
>>> A list of objects to animate and make interact each one with 
>>> each other.
>>>
>>> All of course, IMHO.
>>>       
>>>> Jason Merrill
>>>> Bank of America
>>>> GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia
>>>>
>>>> Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
>>>>
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