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Yes, you can create applications with flash, but you will also need
other things like a way to get information into and out of a database as
flash can not directly access a database.

With Actionscript 2.0 there are very few things (other than the
manipulation of the host computer) that you can not do as far as a

Folks,

Is Flash components (buttons, combo boxes, selection lists, text input fields
and especially data grids) mature enough for building legacy business
applications such as [say] an accounting package ?

My intitial impression is that the Flash IDE is quite primitive as compared to
[say] Visual Studio and especially when it comes to being able to layout forms
in a "what you see is what you get" fashio.

A couple of response to another posing of mine (thank you for responding)
suggested that much of what I am looking for can be done programmatically but
not through the IDE.

So, is anyone else (or am I one of the few) looking at Flash (components and
ActionScript 2) towards building legacy business applications because of its
wide-spread use and ability to run on variois operating systems and platforms -
where data handling and presentation components are way more important than the
multimedia aspects of Flash ?

Finally, please let me know of any resources that might help in this endevour ?