Difference between FLEX and FLASH

could someone explain to me how these two programs are
similar and how they are different and if you have the
time/knowledge a little bit of how FLEX is utilizedDifference between FLEX and FLASH
DelinquentMe,



%26gt; could someone explain to me how these two programs are

%26gt; similar and how they are different and if you have the
time/

%26gt; knowledge a little bit of how FLEX is utilized



This could easily turn into a 10-page essay! Here are a few
bullet

points, to start out, and I'll try to answer whatever
additional questions

these might raise.



* Flash 8 and Flex Builder 2 are two applications that can
publish SWF

files. SWFs are played in the Flash Player application, which
most people

have installed as a browser plug-in. You could say that both
Flash and Flex

Builder publish to the Flash Platform, which basically
encompasses anything

Flash-related, including mobile content for the Flash Lite
player, on

devices such as cell phones and PDAs.



* Flex Builder 2 is part of a family of Flex products,
including optional

server-side software, that primarily caters to online
business applications

(so-called Rich Internet Applications), often compared to
AJAX, as far as

usability goes. That is, nifty interactivity, breaking out of
the HTML-only

box. The Flex framework is an ActionScript library that
assists in UI logic

(positioning elements on the screen, resizing them or
changing position when

the browser resizes, managing layouts, etc.) and database
interactions.



* Flash primarily caters to animation and graphics/animation
heavy

applications, such as heavily branded movie promo sites,
games, banner ads,

and the like.



* Flex Builder 2 has no Timeline panel and no drawing tools.
Everything --

everything! -- is done with programming or drag-and-drop of
pre-built

Components, which makes using Flex Builder a lot like using
Visual Studio or

JBuilder.





David Stiller

Adobe Community Expert

Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/

''Luck is the residue of good design.''





Difference between FLEX and FLASH
Hi DelinquentMe,



And do you know how to integrate a SWF produced with FB2 into
a Flash application ?

This would really help me a lot.



Thanks



Gael