Flex only?

[bvl]

Unless I am mistaken it seems that Cocomo is targeted at Flex
developers only, but why? A lot of the provided functionality would
fit great in a lot of Flash Site designs, e.g. community sites,
which are typically build using the Flash authoring tool. May we
expect Cocomo support for Flash CS3/4 in the future too?

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Hi bvi,



We did choose to focus specifically on Flex for this release
- mostly, I think it was a matter of ease of development - it's
much harder to write these sorts of apps non-declaratively.



That said, we did spend some cycles trying to distance
ourselves from the Flex framework for the "base" classes in Cocomo
- you wouldn't get any UI for free, but the model classes are
largely Flex-independent. We still have a ways to go to be
completely independent (largely, this is around data classes such
as ArrayCollection, which are *so useful* that I hate to remove
them), but I think if there's a demand for it, a Flash-only version
is within reason.



thanks

nigel

[odyssey27]

I personally would like to see you stick with Flex. As you
say, writing a layer for non-declarative apps will eat up your
resources that could be much better spent enhancing and extending
this very cool project.



I do flash work for flash stuff (animations and pretty
stuff). I do flex for applications (albeit, pretty too).