Jude, This looks fantastic. And it looks well thought out as well. We've had some discussions in the past on this list about a tool like this. Do you have any plans of contributing it to Apache Flex? I would be interested in in helping expand this tool. I am a spread out a bit too think with the Installer, tracking, etc. and my Stage3D experimentation. But building a designer/developer tool like this really interests me.
In past discussions, Michael Schmalle had mentioned that combining such a tool with Falcon's capabilities would make for very interesting possibilities [1] Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Om [1] http://markmail.org/message/65w7vra4a6qmqq6s On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:03 AM, jude <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've kindof been sitting on this for a while but I thought I'd put it out > there. I'd like to create a design and development tool for designers and > developers. Usually, you have a really good development tool with adequate > design tools or a really good design tool with adequate or no development. > If Flash Catalyst and FB had continued I'm sure it would have arrived close > to the tool I'd like to build and use. I'd say close because I would add in > some things like behaviors and other things that may not fit into a design > or development only product but would make sense in a combined tool and in > the context of the workflow of daily design and development work. > > This is a little demo I think I shared at one point, > http://www.radii8.com/demo/. I've been working on this for a while and it > grew mainly out of the need to see what a change looked like without > recompiling (and for other reasons obviously). It's just a prototype (and > it's breakable). Click New Project. Drag components from the components > panel on to the stage. Set properties. Notice the document tree structure > as it's being built in the document panel. Scroll down and you'll see a > properties panel, constraint panel, a history panel with undo and redo and > a few others. It's no where near where I want it to be. > > What's not shown but partially working is a timeline view (to view and play > effects), get color under mouse, console, walk up the component tree > outline view and style inheritance information view. You can use some of > these features in this drop in class now, > > https://github.com/monkeypunch3/flexcapacitor/blob/master/MainLibrary/src/com/flexcapacitor/utils/MiniInspector.as > . > I use this class everyday. Add it to your application, set the options and > at runtime command click on a visual element. More of my hopes are here, > http://www.radii8.com/blog/?page_id=2. > > If I could summarize what Polygeek said when asked how he designed things, > "First I think of how I'd like it in a perfect world and then work towards > that". That. > *I think that's right. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Sebastian Mohr <flex.masul...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Thanks Paul ... made a remark on this. > > > > -- > > Sebastian (PPMC) > > Interaction Designer > > > > Looking for a Login Example with Apache Flex? Please check out this code: > > http://code.google.com/p/masuland/wiki/LoginExample > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Paul Hastings <paul.hasti...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > On 2/6/2013 7:47 PM, Sebastian Mohr wrote: > > > > > >> Sorry ... forgot to add the link to the "Designer & > > >> Developer Tools" wiki page [1] ;) Any remarks > > >> welcome :) > > >> > > > > > > FB4.6 can't use MXML design view w/apache flex 4.9. > > > > > > > > > > > >
