Developing applications for Macromedia Flash Player

The target of a Flex application is Flash Player. Flex developers do not need any Flash authoring background. Rather, a typical Flex developer will have more experience developing applications using a server-based model. Flex lets you use a familiar programming model to develop the client tier and presentation tier.

Flex supports two versions of Flash Player. Flex application users install the standard Flash Player to run Flex applications. Flex also supports the debug version of Flash Player, called Flash Debug Player. Flex application developers use Flash Debug Player during the development process. Flash Debug Player supports important features for developers, including the following:

Error reporting Lets you direct runtime error and warning messages to a log file. Flash Debug Player can also capture the output of the trace() function and write it to the log file. For more information, see Debugging Flex Applications in Developing Flex Applications.

ActionScript profiling Helps to identify performance bottlenecks in your applications. The Profiler records the time that Flash Player takes to perform tasks in ActionScript. For more information, see Profiling ActionScript in Developing Flex Applications.

Debugging support Lets you debug ActionScript files used by your Flex applications. For more information, see Debugging Flex Applications in Developing Flex Applications.

Version 1.5

Comments

rs100 said on Dec 29, 2004 at 8:13 AM :

Please indicate whivh version of Macromedia Flash Player is required for Flex 1.5 applications to run on the user's browser. Are there any limitations to using Flex applications on versions of Flash Player older than 7?

mpeterson said on Jan 3, 2005 at 8:18 AM :

Flex 1.5 is supported on Flash Player 7 only.

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