Erik, its really amazing to witness your progress! On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > > > On 1/25/13 10:11 AM, "Frank Pepermans" <frankp...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I concur, this is huge news for the future of Flex! Congrats to making > this > > possible! > > > > About the vanilla sdk, I have some Jangaroo experience, there you can > build > > a full AS Button component, > > which compiles to JS without the need of a vanilla SDK. > > > > I assume technically you can do the same, if the basic Flash API stuff is > > 'emulated' for JS and included with the compilation? > Yes, it is great to see other approaches being investigated. I think there > three approaches right now. > > 1) Jangaroo: Actually a product. Uses Flash API emulation > > It is important to note that the way we use Jangaroo at CoreMedia, we do *not* use JooFlash (the Flash API emulation). Instead, we build UIs in ActionScript and EXML (an MXML dialect), using Ext JS through a (generated) ActionScript API. We call this approach Ext AS: https://github.com/CoreMedia/jangaroo-tools/wiki/Ext-AS I have just recently successfully experimented with using original MXML instead of EXML and will soon post a demo application. This means you can build full-scale Ext JS applications in AS3 and MXML! So actually our solutions are all quite similar in that they do not use the standard Flex component implementation code (Erik uses only the API) nor the Flash API. My Vision is that Apache Flex can be used to fully compile AS3 + MXML to JavaScript and allows using the component library of your choice (Flex-API re-implemented, completely new one, or and Ext JS or other JS UI library bridge). After all, Flex has a tradition of changing the component library ;-) What I like about Ext JS is that this is not a newly invented component framework, but you can find lots of information and experience about Ext JS on the web. It already has a declarative notation, namely a JSON format, that can straight-forwardly be transformed to/from MXML. Greetings -Frank- J8)
