+1 on keeping DV alive -----Original Message----- From: Jason Batten [mailto:i...@jasonbatten.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:18 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Adobe might think of open-sourcing the Design View if there is sufficient interest
Another +1, it's good for quick wireframes and getting started On 22/02/2012 6:14 PM, Bruce Lane wrote: > 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. >>>
