Hi Folks, A quick update on FlexJS before I spend the next several days on the release and on vacation:
1. We have prototypes of a List, Button and a Label 2. We have a prototype of a HTTPService and a LazyCollection 3. The FlexJSTest_again example is updated so you can choose a stock symbol from the List, hit a Button and see the stock price in the Label 4. Peter has built out a TextInput and TextArea in AS and is working on the JS equivalents If you want to play with the AS/MXML/SWF side of this stuff and are too lazy to build from the sources, I have hacked together a way for you to try it in Flash Builder. I have put a zip file called FlexJSOverlay.zip in my folder on people.a.o. Setup instructions are: 1. Get Apache Flex 4.9 working in FB. (I tried it with FB 4.7, but not FB 4.6) 2. Shut down FB 3. Make a copy of your Apache Flex 4.9 folder. The zip file contains a shell script that will neuter the Flex aspects of this folder and replace it with FlexJS stuff. It worked on my Mac, haven’t tried Windows yet. 4. Unzip FlexJSOverlay into a some other folder. 5. Change to that folder and run deploy.sh <path to copy of Apache Flex 4.9 folder> 6. Run Flash Builder 7. Choose from the File menu, Import, Run/Debug, Launch Configurations 8. Choose the ide/flashbuilder folder from this copy of Apache Flex 4.9 we are mucking with. 9. There should now be two new configs in the Run menu under External Tools 10. In the Flash Builder menu, choose Preferences and add this new folder as a Flex SDK. Now for each project: 1. Create a new Flex Project 2. Choose this modified Apache Flex SDK 3. Do not change the output folder from bin-debug 4. Flash Builder will generate a totally messed up Application tag so replace it with this template: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <basic:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"; xmlns:basic="library://ns.apache.org/flexjs/basic" > </basic:Application> Source Code Right now, Application doesn’t contain any UI, it takes another MXML file as the initialView property and a model and a controller. You can reference the example in FlexJSTest_again. Building and Running/Debugging As you edit the code, the regular Flex compiler is compiling and reporting errors, but it only knows how to build Flex SWFs so the output SWF probably won’t run. So, before you debug, choose from the Run menu the new External Tool: “FlexJS (Debug Build)”. This will run the Falcon compiler with the right options to generate a SWF in the bin-debug folder that overwrites the one that is there. Then you should be able to set breakpoints and debug. I’m sure there’ll be lots of issues, but feel free to comment or contribute. After the release I will be tweaking either FalconJS and/or FalconJX to plug into Flash Builder and generate the JS version. For now, you’ll have to build and run FalconJS and manage the resulting JS files as I’ve described in the Wiki. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
