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flash question

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faceless105

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I've never done much of anything flash but I have an application in mind that I'm looking at working on that would be best built with a small portion in flash and I wanted to get some opinions on if I should contract this one out or try to pick it up on my own?

I'm look at having a flash app read in a directory, display some images, allows you to move them in the flash app, and then call a php script that returns some parameters based on the images used as well as their positions.

so my questions are, how hard would it be for someone who doesn't know any flash to browse a directory for all the images, make dragable objects, and track their position/sizing (height x width).

While I haven't done any real flash work before I hav a ton of JS experience, Java, and PHP, so I have a good amoutn of developer experience. any suggestions on the difficulty of a project like that would be incredibly helpful.
 
open up flash, hit F1 for help doc.:)

I don't know flash all that well, but with your experience you have I'd take a shot at the program. you may pick it up and create exactly what your trying to do, or you fail.

good luck!
 
I have a strong background in PHP, JS, webdev stuff. Also worked on some bleeding edge flash stuff for a long time doing raw AS3.0 and Flex.

Flex/AS3.0 is not for the faint of heart, unless you have a strong background in lower level languages that are heavily OOP, and really like to learn new stuff, you might wanna think of contracting that one out.
 
It should be relatively easy if you already know programming languages. PHP will take care of the directory reading which you can pass into Flash. The paramters for the images' position and name can be retrieved by Flash and pushed back into PHP.

www.gotapi.com
www.kirupa.com

Those are some good sites to look into before you decide to tackle the project.
 
OP: I agree that you should try taking a stab at it first.

But my advice based on the comments about your current skills is to set smaller goals/tasks on this, basically "baby-step" your way (ie: read a directory's, display a directory in flash, etc.). This will help you have an easier time wrapping your head around the project through breaking down parts to manageable pieces.

Worse case is that you'll quickly have an idea on how long it will take you to do the project yourself, which could be weighed against contracting someone else to do the work for you.
 
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