Alan, This is a wonderful concept - building Flex apps using Flex :-) Sign me up! The Flex design view is a MUST have feature in my opinion. I would be glad to work here on Apache Flex or on with FDT separately as needed .
Om On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Alan Klement <a...@powerflasher.com> wrote: > Consider this an informal introduction ;) > > I'm Product Manager for FDT and I have been keeping an eye on the list > and even had some communication with the Spoon team. I can say that we > are interested in working with Apache Flex when it comes to tooling > support. That is really another conversation for another time; > however, I want to speak to this topic, the Flex Design View , > specifically. > > We have been working on the 5.1 release of FDT. A flagship feature of > this release will be our SWFBridge plugin architecture. When designing > this feature, a use case I had was to allow anyone to create their own > Design View. > > To enable this, we have exposed most of FDT's internals. You get > everything from workspace / file management, editors, UI and even the > model (AST) of any project. Best of all, this is geared toward > Flash/Flex developers. You don't write your plugins in Java > (EclipseRCP), but in Actionscript & Flex. > > To give an idea of the power of this, you could build almost every > feature of FDT (and more) with this plugin architecture. > > I would love to provide support to whomever is interested in building > such plugins (e.g. Design View). I have already begun setting up a > Google Group and git repositories to specifically work with plugin > developers. > > If you are interested in getting involved, please respond. Depending > on the interest (and rules of the list), we can see if discussions > take place here, directly with me or via the Google Group I already > set up. > > Alan > http://fdt.powerflasher.com/ > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Michael A. Labriola > <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > We may want to consider a design tool eventually that is written > differently. However, the current one will not work in the current form for > any modifications we make. Why they would or would not donate it is not > something I can address, but wanted to give you some sense of the reality > of the tool > > > > -- > Alan >
