If that's all you need I would again check out Intellij IDEA Flash design viewer plugin, that's exactly what it does, it even allows for configuring of attributes though selecting the correct entity is buggy, doing a "preview" is not
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, BentBit Apache-Flex <apache-f...@bentbit.com > wrote: > Hello, > > I use design view to "preview" elements of my Flash Builder > project. Previewing makes the design workflow much faster because I can > see how the project is going to look. I rarely rely on design view to make > actual changes to my projects because it is slow and unreliable. > > Would it be possible to develop some sort of a preview that would > function for Apache Flex and Adobe Flex? I am not worried about losing > design view, just the preview capability. > > Best, > > -Blake > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stakesoft [mailto:m...@stakesoft.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:32 AM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Apache Flex GUI Designer tools > > Technical issues aside I suspect there a good few of us that rely on > design views (and we are not all noobs). Many are supporting not having a > DV as they don't use it and that's fine for them but a bit of a disaster > for others. There are IDE's with DV's and those without - the best in my > mind all have a DV. > > If Adobe are not taking care of the SDK or the DV it leaves much less > advantage over other free software. > > Non DV developers at Adobe please try and understand how important a DV is > to the many who use it. I wish 4.7 onwards all the best but it will just > about unusable for me. > > Nigel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: 02 October 2012 17:12 > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Apache Flex GUI Designer tools > > > > > On 10/2/12 8:55 AM, "Sebastian Mohr" <masul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > @Adobe ... what's wrong with continuing building GUI > > designer tools for Apache Flex? Is that really something > > that is not worth investing into? You already created those > > tools. So, why not sharing some of your expertise with the > > community, and, not locking your code in the archives of > > Adobe history? > > > This has been discussed before. Design View is highly dependent on a Flex > SDK version. It is not practical for Adobe to maintain DV in FB now that > SDKs are coming from Apache. > > I think the DV code is flawed for that reason and some others. It is > probably better to simply start over. AFAIK, it is "just" an Eclipse > plug-in. > > If figuring out some aspect of the plug-in turns out to be difficult, I > can > try to see if there are some pieces we could donate, but the assessment > from > the owners of the code is that there isn't much that is re-usable. > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > > > > > > -- Charles A. Monteiro www.monteirosfusion.com sent from the road
