Right, Design View is very important to learn the Flex components behaviours. +1 Bruce Lane
On 22 February 2012 11:11, Avinash Narayanan <avinasha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I completely agree. I personally loved the design view alot especially when > I first started out since I had no idea what flex was all about. Its also > brilliant for understanding the various containers, components etc from a > learning perspective. definitely a +1 from my side. > > Thanks > Avinash Y > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Dimitri k. <k...@noos.fr> wrote: > >> After the discussion on the ML about the Design View, I thought it would >> be a good idea to ask Deepa at the Flex Paris meeting if Adobe could >> consider to open-source it after the removal from next version of Flash >> Builder. >> Frédéric Thomas, also on the ML, was quicker than me and ask Deepa about >> that. >> She said that Adobe hasn't thought about it because they didn't believe we >> were interested, but she was thinking it could be a good idea. >> In fact, the Design View is a Flex app, so the community can easily >> contribute to it, and legal scrubbing should not be such a drag. >> >> She concluded that the best thing to make it happen would be to show >> interrest for the open-sourcing of DV on this list. >> >> I know that lots of people don't care about the Design View (I rarely use >> it myself), but here are 4 reasons I think it could be a good move for >> Apache Flex: >> >> - DV is a great tool to understand the MXML paradigm, particularly for >> people coming for a Flash Pro background (timeline+stage), and its removal >> would increase the barrier of entry to Flex. >> >> - I heard several times about devs for which the DV is central to their >> Flex workflow. It's often the case for heavy form-based application, where >> standard Flex components are use exclusively and the Design View help >> avoiding "design re-compilation". >> In fact, I was told by an Adobe enterprise evangelist that he sold Flex to >> some big companies mainly because of the Design View and the ease they see >> in it to train their employees. >> >> - DV can be really helpful when designing Mobile apps, because you can >> test quickly your design with different resolutions and orientations >> >> - If we have access to the Design View code, maybe we could improve it in >> a way that even current Design View haters would use it ;) >> >> Dimitri K. >>
