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Timeline vs No Timeline
As a developer, I love the purist code. I develop in the ZEND architecture and I rarely code in anything that isn’t Eclipse Based anymore. Adobe Flex has become one of my favorite IDEs. What an interesting evolution in thought processes.
I have developed many OOP applications in Flash with Actionscript. This approach utilizes a basic timeline structure, as Flash has always been (since 4.0) on timeline. Thinking in terms of Timelines was no big switch, because Lingo was my language of choice before flash actionscript was an option. Learn to Speak, Just Enough, and the Berlitz titles too – were based on Lingo and director. Director was always the tool I used to bridge the gap between the artists and the programmers.
The timeline structure, although interesting and workable, is less appealing to hard core developers. As I develop more and more code in Flex, I realize that the old school timeline paradigm is less appealing. The more I use actionscript 3 in the Flex IDE, the better I like this shift in thinking.
There are times that I really miss the timeline in flash, but the tradeoff so far makes it worthwhile to stick with flex.
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