Hi Jason, Wow! It would gives another life to the project. Wish I could have capacity to help.
Thanks, Piotr czw., 15 lip 2021 o 14:19 Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > Hi, Jason: > > While the Royale project is fairly active, the Flex project has not been > moving forward of late. Incorporating this interesting initiative into > Apache Flex would give you a structure in which to develop and to which to > attract contributors, and would give the Flex project new life. > > I am a doc guy rather than a hard-core developer, but I would be happy to > help document the Dot Net solution. > > Andrew > > < > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail > > > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > < > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail > > > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 8:03 PM Jason Taylor <jtay...@dedoose.com> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, I've struggled with this idea for a long time and finally > started > > action on this project. I experimenting with building a Dot Net version > of > > Flex which includes rudimentary flash as well. Currently I have a bare > > bones working prototype using SKIA as the front end demonstrating the > > concept is doable, but obviously will take a ton of work. I am not > > implementing everything 100% as I'm making some choices on which flash > > features are implemented as well as leveraging some of C# language and > > runtime features, but the idea is most MXML would be able to run with > minor > > modification. I also have an AS3 to C# converter which should assist > since > > the C# syntax is very similar to AS3 but far more powerful. > > > > My main motivation for this project is the direction of the current UI > > frameworks that support dot not including WinUI, UNO, Avalonia. All of > > them don't meet my needs in one way or another including full cross > > platform compatibility, pixel perfect control, and an XML like dialect > that > > is clean, simple, and powerful. If you've ever worked on XAML after > > working on MXML it's crazy how much more complicated simple things are in > > XAML and you still don't get full control of what is rendered. > > > > I have been coding in flash since Flash 6, Flex since it's inception, and > > C# since it's launch and I have developed and maintain what is possibly > the > > most complex application ever made in Flex (Dedoose). The only reason I > > was able to do this is how Flex makes it fast and easy to rapidly > develop, > > iterate, expand, and maintain. I have other avenues going at Dedoose > to > > make a compatible version of Dedoose in one of those newer frameworks but > > the amount of technical debt we will take on in doing so is something I'm > > not terribly excited about. > > > > While I respect the groups decision with Royale, I believe a Dot Net > > solution could be far more powerful, far easier to develop & maintain. > > > > If anyone is interested in assisting me in this project I will be looking > > for collaborators with experience in flash, flex, and C#, and potentially > > be offering pay for this work. Please email me directly if interested, > > and if I see interest I'll setup a Discord and we can talk and figure out > > the details. > > > > ~ JT > > > > > -- > Andrew Wetmore > > http://cottage14.blogspot.com/ > -- Piotr Zarzycki
