{"id":110,"date":"2009-08-07T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dasflash.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-08-07T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T09:52:20","slug":"renaming-flex-builder-solves-one-problem-but-causes-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/archives\/110","title":{"rendered":"Renaming Flex Builder solves one problem but causes another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a meeting with a client who was looking for a Flex Developer to maintain an existing Flex project. I had a look at the code and was pretty confused because, well, it wasn&#8217;t Flex. It was just a huge Flex Builder ActionScript\u00a0project including several .fla files full of library assets.\u00a0Just because he had been given a repository with a Flex Builder project in it, the client thougt he had to look for a Flex Developer to add some features to his application. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to explain the difference between Flex, Flash, the Flash IDE and Flex Builder and why it makes a big difference whether you create your project as an ActionScript or Flex project. That made me realize why <a href=\"http:\/\/theflashblog.com\/?p=993\" target=\"_blank\">renaming Flex Builder to Flash Builder<\/a> absolutely makes sense. If this would have been a &#8220;Flash Builder&#8221; project, the client wouldn&#8217;t have thought he&#8217;d have to look for a&#8221;Flex Developer&#8221; that is still much harder to find than a &#8220;Flash Developer&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But I still think that the confusion won&#8217;t be over once Flash Builder ist out. One reason is that Flex Builder will stay around for years, so people might think there are just two different Builders then, one for &#8220;Flash&#8221; and one for Flex. Another reason is that it&#8217;s going to be hard to explain the difference between Flash IDE and Flash Builder, especially because both will have version number 4 (Flash Builder 4 and Flash CS4). It&#8217;s been hard enough to explain the difference between Flash Player and Flash in the past. With Flash Builder around this will become even harder.<\/p>\n<p>So I think it would be a smart move from Adobe to rename the Flash IDE, too. Otherwise renaming Flex Builder will solve one problem just to cause another.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55\" title=\"livemotion1_box\" src=\"http:\/\/dorianroy.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/livemotion1_box.jpg\" alt=\"livemotion1_box\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" \/>P.S:\u00a0Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/movies1.vtc.com\/player\/hbMoviePlayer.php?cipher=0t530m%7C41i4s%7Cn4ei%7C%7Ch1o39%7Co3te%7C3nl2%7Cpv%7C3eh&amp;size=Large&amp;movieName=What+is+Live+Motion%3F&amp;titleName=Adobe+LiveMotion+2.0\" target=\"_blank\">LiveMotion<\/a>, Adobe&#8217;s &#8220;Flash Killer&#8221; back in the days when Flash was still owned by Macromedia? I think &#8220;LiveMotion 3.0&#8221; would be a great name for the next version of the Flash IDE! There are even 122\u00a0people who have already signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/943251083\" target=\"_blank\">petition to get LiveMotion<\/a> back \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a meeting with a client who was looking for a Flex Developer to maintain an existing Flex project. I had a look at the code and was pretty confused because, well, it wasn&#8217;t Flex. It was just a huge Flex Builder ActionScript\u00a0project including several .fla files full of library assets.\u00a0Just because he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/archives\/110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Renaming Flex Builder solves one problem but causes another<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,32,33,34],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-platform","tag-adobe","tag-flash-builder","tag-flash-platform","tag-flex-builder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorianroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}