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Creating a version of the LCCS whiteboard in Adobe Flash

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Q: Is it possible to create the sample app WhiteBoardModel.mxml in Adobe Flash?

It appears to be mostly actionScript, or does this particular as rely on the Flex Components and as packages?

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Hi,

We don't have those API for whiteboard because as Arun mentioned in the

first reply, whiteboard is a flex heavy UI component and so we don't

have a flash only component or API for that.

Basically its like this, flex components are built on top of flash with

more and more UI stuff added to it. Some of our components which could

be built comfortably with only flash were done so and we provide them in

our Flash SDK. However, there are certain pieces such as our WhiteBoard

which rely heavily on flex aren't provided with flash only SDK.

Thanks

Hironmay Basu

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Hi,

Unfortunately the WhiteBoard heavily relies of Flex Components, so as of now its not possible to have WhiteBoard using the Flash only libraries.

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Arun

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Hi Arun,

thank you - I figured this was the case but always good to have confirmation.

Best

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So adobe is moving away from flash?

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Former Community Member

Huh? No! The question here is whether the Flex component (which runs in the

Flash Player) can be back-ported to a component which still runs in the

Flash Player, but has no dependencies on the Flex framework. Either way,

it's still Flash.

Now, that doesn't mean we haven't looked at the idea of supporting JS or

other client technologies though. We're about selling services with the

highest reach possible.

nigel

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flex is receiving much more functionality than the Flash Player. If it was for security reasons I would understand but it seems as if the Flash Player has been left out unneccesarily already.

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Former Community Member

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Do you mean the

Flash-only LCCS swc? Again, this all runs in the Flash Player.

nigel

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sorry

I mean api for flex vs. api for flash. i.e. no whiteboard in flash api.

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Former Community Member

Hi,

We don't have those API for whiteboard because as Arun mentioned in the

first reply, whiteboard is a flex heavy UI component and so we don't

have a flash only component or API for that.

Basically its like this, flex components are built on top of flash with

more and more UI stuff added to it. Some of our components which could

be built comfortably with only flash were done so and we provide them in

our Flash SDK. However, there are certain pieces such as our WhiteBoard

which rely heavily on flex aren't provided with flash only SDK.

Thanks

Hironmay Basu

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it is difficiult to understand why you make a "flex-only" decision. I can't use flex and feel left out. I was believing flash could do anything.

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