Thanks Alex, you pretty much just reiterated what I thought in my head. As far as Randori, that was a kcikass IntelliJ plugin that I started and Frederic Thomas put a huge amount of time it. We had the cross compiler hooked up, I created "bundles" and "library bundles" that were integrated into the IDE..... Ah open source, the pain and agony of retrospect.
I also don't need a lesson in what community driven means, just that I think you know me and I am really just trying to figure out "what" I would do with it if I put the time in. I am good at seeing down the road, I know if IntelliJ supported FlexJS, that would be a huge road to at least getting a dev environment going where you could actually feel like you were using a professional IDE to take it beyond a alpha experiment. The way I see it is, I need to find a pet project, something I have been interested in is Web Audio. I might do some research into it(I haven't been doing that javascript stuff) and it could be a jump starter focus thing for me. Seems like for me to do this right I just need to do a lot of research with what is written so far with the compiler emitters and your component framework. Mike On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Alex Harui [via Apache Flex Development] < ml-node+s2333347n45715...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > > > On 3/22/15, 4:49 AM, "TeotiGraphix" <[hidden email] > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=45715&i=0>> wrote: > > >Well I voted for it. > > > >To be honest, I am still in the complete dark with FlexJS, what/how it > >does > >what it does and the new component model. I just thought i would drop > this > >line to see what the happenings are currently. > > There’s information on the wiki: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS > > But in short, FlexJS uses a combination of cross-compilation and class > substitution. As you may know, the Falcon compiler has the notion of > compilation units. There are compilation units from SWCs and compilation > units from MXML and AS. Falcon converts MXML and AS to ABC and combines > it with the ABC from the SWCs and outputs a SWF. > > FalconJX converts MXML and AS to JS, but for SWC compilation units, it > tries to find a JS file of the same name. IOW, > org.apache.flex.core.UIBase.as is expected to have an > org.apache.flex.core.UIBase.js. Some of those JS files are created by > cross-compiling AS to JS in library projects. > > > > >I helped write the Randori IntelliJ plugin with doublefx back in 2013. > >That > >plugin used the FalconJX cross compiler and it worked awesome, just > nobody > >wanted to use Randori. That was like 600+ hours of my time down the drain > >with the plugin and actually writing FalconJX. > > > >So in a way, I am trying to weigh the pluses and minuses about developing > >something that might not get used. > > Maybe some of that can be repurposed for FlexJS. The gotcha of > volunteer-driven technology is that if nobody works on it, it will never > get used, but the cool thing about Apache projects is that “everyone” can > contribute and those who contribute can help make it something they want. > > >How would FlexJS integrate with WebGL? I am naive about this. > > Well, I don’t know anything about WebGL, but essentially, any common > pattern of code in any language should be encapsulated. For JS, if you > can stick a class-like API surface on that encapsulation, then you can > emulate or mock that thing in AS. > > So if you always write the same sequence of JS code to draw a 3D sphere of > a color, radius, and light source, you might write in JS: > > Sphere = function() > { > } > > Sphere.prototype.drawSphere = function (color, radius, lightSource) > { > // whatever WebGL and other code you need > } > > And in AS you would write: > > Class Sphere > { > function drawSphere(color:int, radius:Number, > lightSource:Coordinate):void > { > // code that does the equivalent for Flash. > } > } > > The reason I said “mock” is because, if you don’t actually care about the > SWF version, you can just write a mock that saves enough space on the > screen or does a cheap emulation of the JS version just so the person > using the library can exercise the rest of their logic. This is the key > thing for FlexJS: we are trying to make it more efficient to write the > code you use to glue other people’s code together. The AS VM’s verifier > helps you by finding API surface incompatibilities sooner than you might > otherwise. > > -Alex > > > > >Mike > > > >On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:57 AM, piotrz [via Apache Flex Development] < > >[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=45715&i=1>> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Mike, > >> > >> I am glad that another person is intrested to helping out with FlexJS! > >>:) > >> We are growing! :) > >> Voting on this ticket would be for sure help to get closer support for > >> FlexJS in Intellij. > >> https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-116986 > >> > >> They need to know how much we wanted to this feature. :) > >> > >> Thank you and Good Luck with setup! :) > >> Piotr > >> Apache Flex PMC > >> [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=45715&i=2> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------ > >> If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the > >>discussion > >> below: > >> > >> > >> > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45 > >>680p45700.html > >> To unsubscribe from FlexJS compiler, click here > >> > >>< > >>WlsLmNvbXw0NTY4MHwxMjE5OTE3NzQ2> > >> . > >> NAML > >> > >>< > <http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServle> > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServle > >>t.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabbl > > >>e.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace > > >>-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21 > > >>nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_ema > > >>il%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > >> > > > > > > > > > >-- > >View this message in context: > > > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp456 > >80p45701.html > >Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45680p45715.html > To unsubscribe from FlexJS compiler, click here > <http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=45680&code=dGVvdGlncmFwaGl4bGxjQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw0NTY4MHwxMjE5OTE3NzQ2> > . > NAML > <http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45680p45720.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
