I have a few issues with the graphics package which I wanted to discuss: 1. The package name. It’s currently using a generic name, and ultimately, I think we’re going to want separate packages for SVG and Canvas. Since it’s currently using SVG, I would propose to change the name to org.apache.flex.core.svg instead of org.apache.flex.core.graphics (and canvas would become org.apache.flex.core.canvas with the same class names in the package)
2. There’s no SVG Container which would contain SVG children (and possibly some foreignObject elements inside them. I wanted to create one which would be based off of ContainerBase. I was going to call it GraphicsContainer, but that class already exists and is not a true container. I’d like to rename that class. More on that in the next item. 3. I’d like an interface which mimics the Flash APIs as closely as possible. It might not make sense to have every element have a “graphics” object because it could inflate things unnecessarily, but I’m thinking that it might make sense to rename GraphicsContainer to CompoundGraphic which would have all the drawing commands as first class methods. That should make converting Flash objects to FlexJS objects pretty straight-forward myObj.graphics.drawRoundedRect() would become myObj.drawRoundedRect(). I’d like to keep the actual method signatures as similar as possible. 4. I also think we should add interfaces for all these classes to make svg and canvas (and possibly DOM) easily swappable. Thoughts?
