+1 Design View is crucial to my work flow.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:03 AM, 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. > -- Art Grater P.O. Box 1747 Pebble Beach, CA 93953 831-915-7788 www.DissoCase.com
