Thanks for all the ideas and tutorial content so far. I think the structure that Mark suggested looks great.
Can someone please volunteer to compile this info into a wiki page from which we can start filling in content slowly? Please let us know, we can get you access to our wiki site here [1] Thanks, Om [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Apache+Flex+Wiki On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Marcus Fritze <marcus.fri...@googlemail.com > wrote: > I think a written tutorial with good screenshots is a must. It's also > easier to update the text over the years if something changes. > > But the video is definitely a plus and a good guide. > > The video should be something like this: > > Compiling and Contributing to Apache Flex with IntelliJ by Nicholas > Kwiatkowski > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COE3hYqCJk > > This is for IntelliJ 11.1, but not working with the latest IntelliJ > version (and maybe because of the change of the source code location > git/svn). > > I think there are a lot of developers out there who want to help, but > don't know how. > Like me, I have created some issues in the JIRA, but I have no idea how to > compile / patch the SDK. > > I would really like to help and fix bugs in the SDK, but I don't know how. > I am waiting for the tutorial. > > This would be very good for the project, if everybody knows how to compile > / patch the SDK. So everybody can fix the bugs you have found yourself. > Maybe more people, who are just Flex developers / user, contribute to this > project. > > Thanks! > > Marcus Fritze > > Am 29.07.2013 um 11:18 schrieb "Sugan Naicker" <su...@dev-x.co.za>: > > > Great idea Jude! Simple and effective. > > > > Rgs, > > > > Sugan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jude [mailto:flexcapaci...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 29 July 2013 05:41 AM > > To: dev@flex.apache.org > > Subject: Re: [REQUEST] A tutorial on how to fix bugs for the Flex SDK > > > > I have a suggestion on this tutorial writing thing. If anyone of you that > > have this environment setup can record and upload a raw unedited video I > can > > edit it or rerecord it and republish it. What I'm thinking is that you > could > > log out and then log back in as guest, then go through recording the > entire > > process of setting up the environment and testing as a fresh new user. > > > > I use Camtasia on Mac to do screen recordings like this but there are > many > > others out there. It may be turn out to be a really long video; that's > > alright. The reason is that it may be easier to show people how to set > it up > > than work on typing everything up. A video demonstration doesn't require > any > > writing per se. We can also capture small details that sometimes get left > > out of tutorials and then make sure these details get into the tutorials. > > This does *not* have to be edited at all. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > >> Hmm. The source path is really > >> "/Users/erik/Documents/ApacheFlex/git/flex-sdk/frameworks/projects/spa > >> rk/sr c" (with "/src")? And you aren't using RSLs? > >> What does a link report say for which Label.as it used? > >> > >> On 7/26/13 11:57 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >> > >>> It was :-( > >>> > >>> EdB > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 7/26/13 2:41 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Ok, this is what I tried: > >>>>> > >>>>> I created a new project in FB. It uses the 4.10 SDK in the FB/sdks > >>>>> folder. In "project properties/Flex Build Path" on the "Source path" > >>>>> tab I added the folder > >>>>> "/Users/erik/Documents/ApacheFlex/git/flex-sdk/frameworks/projects/ > >>>>> spark > >>>>> ", > >>>>> thinking this will allow me to work on the classic Spark components. > >>>>> > >>>>> In my project, I add a Label in MXML. I cmd click on 'Label' to get > >>>>> me into the Label source. > >>>> Check which Label.as it opened up. It may not be the one from git. > >>>> > >>>>> I place a trace statement in the constructor. I save, clean the > >>>>> project (just to be sure) and launch the project in debug mode... > >>>>> No trace statement shows up :-( When I try to put a breakpoint in > >>>>> the source, it complains there is no code on that line. > >>>>> > >>>>> What am I doing wrong? > >>>>> > >>>>> EdB > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 7/25/13 3:37 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> but also means you don't have to build the SWCs before testing > >>>>>>>> your changes. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Perhaps I missing the point but if you make a change you will > >>>>>>> have to recompile that project, you just don't have to recompile > >>>>>>> the entire SDK. > >>>>>> You are correct, but in my workflow, I don't even have to stop to > >>>>>> compile a single project. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> For this resource module RTE I just worked on, I changed the > >>>>>> files, compiled the test case without running any ant scripts, > >>>>>> and repeated until it all worked. Then I go run a full build and > >>>>>> start up mustella. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -Alex > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Ix Multimedia Software > >>>>> > >>>>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 > >>>>> 3521 VB Utrecht > >>>>> > >>>>> T. 06-51952295 > >>>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ix Multimedia Software > >>> > >>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 > >>> 3521 VB Utrecht > >>> > >>> T. 06-51952295 > >>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl > >> > >> > > > >
