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Florin Jurcovici

Posts: 66
Nickname: a0flj0
Registered: Feb, 2005

Re: UGH!!! - me too, me too!

Posted: Jul 17, 2007 10:34 AM

However, it's not flex but flash I'm having a problem with.

I never liked flash. Flash is proprietary. It changes ABI from one version to the next (i.e. you need a fresh player to play new versions).

While flash certainly is a solution for playing movies on youtube or showing the portfolio of graphical artists on the web, IMO its use for building UIs for rich clients is misuse.

You can implement XML-RPC using XmlHttpRequest, which is since last year an official W3C recommendation. You can also build proper UIs using widget sets based on HTML and JS. There are even frameworks for building flash-like stuff without flash, using just JS and HTML. Most modern browsers implement enough of the W3C spex to make such frameworks run in any modern browser.

So why flash?

Kay Schluehr

Posts: 302
Nickname: schluehk
Registered: Jan, 2005

Re: UGH!!! - me too, me too!

Posted: Jul 19, 2007 10:55 PM

> However, it's not flex but flash I'm having a problem
> with.
>
> I never liked flash. Flash is proprietary. It changes ABI
> from one version to the next (i.e. you need a fresh player
> to play new versions).

But so does Python, which is not proprietary. You simply can't run a pyc file across different versions of the runtime and ABI compliency has never been a requirement for Python. But when you need a new player/runtime anyway I ask you what is it a big deal to install an appropriate Flash plugin ( pythonXX.dll )?

Jon Cox

Posts: 1
Nickname: jcox
Registered: Aug, 2007

Re: Put a Flex UI On Your Application

Posted: Aug 28, 2007 11:21 AM

I'd be very interested in seeing an in-depth comparison
between OpenLazlo 4 and Flex. Ideally, I'd love to be
in a room with the architects of both systems, some
hard-core users, and some folks just learning each
system for the first time. Short of that, has anybody
here tried both (Bruce?). Some points of comparison
I'd like to hear about include:

- Productivity
- Learning curve
- Performance
- Openness (Flex's SDK is open, but there's more to it)
- Misc strengths & weaknesses
- Bugginess
- Documentation
- Development Tools
- Ease of handling back button properly
- Ease of making apps with bookmarkable gui state
- Flex's DataServices vs OpenLaszlo's Webtop
- ... anything else you can think of...

Cheers,
- Jon

David Ng

Posts: 1
Nickname: tassiedave
Registered: Aug, 2007

Re: Put a Flex UI On Your Application

Posted: Aug 29, 2007 4:35 AM

Hey! This tutorial doesnt work out of the box!

After a cut and paste the code, I get the error:

Server.Error.Request
HTTP request error

The server and python test client run OK, so it must be a Flex issue. Could it be something to do with the crossdomain policy?

I'm running OSX and the lastest versions of flex, python etc...

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Posts: 3
Nickname: saleh194
Registered: Aug, 2007

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li cq

Posts: 1
Nickname: licq
Registered: Aug, 2007

Re: Put a Flex UI On Your Application

Posted: Dec 18, 2007 1:05 AM

I want to know whether it is able to make the server side to notify the FLEX client to update data?

I think it is a really important problem to be a great UI choice.

Fred Sells

Posts: 1
Nickname: fredsells
Registered: Mar, 2008

Re: Put a Flex UI On Your Application

Posted: Mar 8, 2008 1:29 PM

That XML-RPC example was an eye opener. Thanks. More recently you did a simple video example with James Ward using Turbogears.

I would like to establish a consistent approach within my organization based on Flex UI. The XML-RPC is great in it's simplicity and method binding. Turbogears seems pretty cool too. Do you have any insight on backend choices between Turbogears, xml-rpc and perhaps django.

Ryan Mills

Posts: 1
Nickname: oniseijin
Registered: Oct, 2009

Re: Put a Flex UI On Your Application

Posted: Oct 31, 2009 9:15 AM

I found the same issue, with no clear resolution...

Posted a bug: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2357429#2357429

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