Gumbo and my thoughts

Tags: Flex

Had a quicj read of what Gumbo is today, and from what I can see its looking like it will be a great product.

However, I seriously hope that the Design in mind is just that. One of the things that I have not like about this product, is how much manual coding is involved. When you look at what Microsoft delivered and in a shorter time frame to market, Silverlight and the Expression Suite I felt that Adobe could have provided more with Flex Builder 2 and was somewhat disappointed with what I saw on the UI and properties side.

When first playing everthing is daunting, so the lack of this was annoying to say the least.

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  • Daniel Sellers's Gravatar If you are looking for something with a more design oriented approach to application creation from adobe you should look at

    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/

    might answer some of your complaints with Flex Builder...
    # Posted By Daniel Sellers | 11/20/08 7:52 AM
  • Andrew Scott's Gravatar Actually design is not the right term then.

    The point I was trying to make was that if I place an object down onto the canvas, that I should be able to see or modify all properties and attributes to that object.

    This has never been fully implemented in the Builder.

    However I am interested in Flash Catalyst, that does look likes interesting.
    # Posted By Andrew Scott | 11/21/08 7:20 AM

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