At 11/27/08 11:05 AM, El-Presidente wrote:
Who fina-fucking-lly switched to AS3? I fina-fucking-lly switch to AS3. For now I'm using Eclipse SDK and Flex Builder, and they work great, but FB runs out after 60 days. I could've sworn it was free, unless there's a difference between Flex and Flex Builder. Anyway, if I run out of the trial, I'll get the free one if it's there. Do any of you know?
Still switching. Slowly. Tablet PC with my working copy of CS3 and all my samples still has PSU issues, so no progress on my Perspy engine (which I should redo in CS4... anyone want to loan me £150?)
Anyway, yes, there's a difference between FB and it's SDK. Flex is just a command line compiler available here, which should be configurable to run in your IDE of choice, whereas FB is a development environment that runs based on Eclipse.
In future, can all responders to people who make "I want to make a game but want free flash maker apps plz" stop recommending LiveSWF and recommend Flex instead? Keep recommending LiveSWF for animation work, naturally, but we may as well break the proto-coders minds early with Pandora's Flex rather than watching them drive themselves insane trying to code in third party tools.