Dear Apache Flex / FlexJS community -- I am pleased to report we have finally reached a balance between Apple's security requirements for the App Store and the needs of the Moonshine IDE to install the necessary SDKs and command-line tools such as ANT for automated project builds.
As of v1.2.0, Moonshine IDE now also supports a basic method for generating a FlexJS interface from a Balsamiq mock-up. Our hope is this returns some of the features of the original Flex Builder Design view concept to help newcomers do basic layouts of their forms without having to write a single line of FlexJS to get started. Please download and provide your feedback on the mailing list or to us directly. We especially want to hear of anymore problems like Peter Ent's who was unable to build projects due to App Store sand box restrictions we think we now have all worked out for all recent MacOS releases. Note that we have not tested Sierra beta yet, so if anyone has that installed we would like your feedback. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moonshine/id1099109346?mt=12 Santanu is going to work on re-testing the Windows version next and post the latest version to the Moonshine-IDE.com website as well including sources. We really need help with code completion next. Walker, Alex, and I have a separate thread going on that topic in which Alex suggested Moonshine could use the same code completion hooks that Flash Builder uses from the Falcon compiler code base. Please chime in if you know anything about building AIR Native Extensions (ANEs) or the code completion engine hooks. Especially for newcomers, we must get code completion working in the IDE for it to be useful. I firmly believe for FlexJS to gain traction it needs an easy to use entry point (IDE) that is cross platform, downloads the necessary SDKs automatically, provides handy references to the API documentation, integrates Tour de Flex, and lays a groundwork for getting started quickly. We have accomplished many of these things and would appreciate assistance taking the IDE to the next level of usability based upon your frank feedback. Thank you, Justin Hill My Apache Flex community contribution is working on the open source Moonshine-IDE.com for FlexJS.
