kelvin Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Hi Mr. Larry, I just begin to learn Flex after preparation of PHP & MySQL, And, I'm kind of confused about usefulness of FLEX, you know, hmtl5 is here, and also got so many third party frames about css and html, Should I pay much attention to flex learning? Does it turn out to be obsolete? Best wishes, Kelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HartleySan Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 In my personal opinion, Flex is becoming less and less useful, like you said. it doesn't hurt to know Flex though, as a lot of the programming concepts found in Flex carry over to other languages (after all, ActionScript and JavaScript are both based on ECMAScript), but I agree with you that your time would be better spent learning JavaScript if your goal is to make yourself relevant and marketable. Still, Flex is an interesting thing to learn as a hobby (and there are still the occasion jobs that float around that ask for Flex devs, which there aren't many of anymore). Hope that helps, and welcome to the forums, kelvin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Yeah, I agree with HartleySan here on all fronts. May be interesting to learn as a hobby. Some useful info that applies elsewhere. Otherwise dead in the water as a future technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necuima Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 In general I fully agree with HartleySan and Larry in the context of Flex and Actionscript3 as web development tools. But I have done a couple of small applications using Flex/Actionscript3 which run on the desktop (via AIR). In this non-browser context I have found those tools very useful. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That's a good point. Thanks! With AIR, Flex becomes more interesting and useful. Now the question about the necessity of AIR...(which, like Flex, I rather liked at one point.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necuima Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Hi Larry, What tools do you recommend for a desktop application that requires both read and write access to the file system on the desktop? Thanks, and Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelvin Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 Hi HartleySan, Many thanks for your kind explanation, as beginner, I better pay much attention to the fundamental techs, That's bad feeling always see the trees but not the forest, best, Kelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Necuima, I actually don't have a better recommendation! If you want a desktop app with file system access and broad OS support, AIR is the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necuima Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Hi Larry, With Visual C++ and creating a Windows form, you can access the local (Windows) file system using the .NET capability. I don't know if the form bit is necessary but that's how I managed to do it (just recently). I don't know that this approach can be used on non-Windows system but I suspect not. Cheers from Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HartleySan Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 That's kind of why Java was created; you have a platform that Java sits on that works the same across all OSs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 AFAIK, there is no .NET equivalent on Mac OS X (or *nix). Yes, Java works in this area (all of the Eclipse stuff). Someone SublimeText, written in Python, works on all OSes. I imagine it has custom ports to each OS, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necuima Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Hi HartleySan and Larry, Thankyou for the feedback and advice. I will have to investigate Java some more. Cheers from Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HartleySan Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Personal opinion, but if you want an OS-agnostic application, the web is generally your best bet. It offers the most flexibility, and there's very little you can do in desktop applications these days that you can't do on the web. Just my two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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