And Starling is supposed to be that emulation. I haven't tried it myself and I don't know if there are issues and what the trade-offs are.
On 10/21/12 4:22 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > Actually, I said the displayList /could/ be emulated, but I wouldn't be one > to do it. Since everything in Flex pretty much depends on it, you would > need to be extremely careful for anything that would need to be optimized. > Something I am not ;P > > -Nick > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:38 PM, sébastien Paturel > <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> A display list can't be emulated? is it such a bad idea that we should not >> continue to use it anymore? >> >> It's not only the "adobe's direction issue", its the multi target >> direction issue, and getting rid of Adobe's runtime dependency >> >> Le 21/10/2012 20:00, Nicholas Kwiatkowski a écrit : >> >> I've taken a look at it, and gave it the half-day heave. >>> >>> It looks to be a pretty big task. The biggest problem is the lack of a >>> DisplayList, which is the model that Flex is based on. That in itself >>> will >>> cause well over 900 classes to have to be re-engineered. After you've >>> re=engineered those, all you would have left is the networking stack, and >>> some one-offs (like Mike's favorite -- binding!). >>> >>> I'm not saying that Flex shouldn't go that route, but I think at this >>> point >>> of the game, it would be unfeasible for us to think we can take this on in >>> the short-term. There are LOTS of other things I'd like to see happen >>> before we refactor to use the "this is Adobe's direction today" >>> technology. >>> >>> -Nick >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, aYo ~ <a...@binitie.com> wrote: >>> >>> Considering the discussions on the various forums, it doesn't look very >>>> promising >>>> On Oct 21, 2012 3:59 PM, "sébastien Paturel" <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks for the update, >>>>> but why would it require a "fairly massive rewrite" exactly? >>>>> when you say "I would look at that" about feathersui, you mean as an >>>>> alternative to flex? >>>>> >>>>> its quite a bad news IMO. if flex can't "easely" target a new rendering >>>>> layer like starling, which stay in an Adobe runtime, >>>>> what is the future of flex as a multi platform framework, and especially >>>>> as a mobile SDK? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> After discussing with Thibault and spending time working on this I've >>>>> >>>>>> determined that a fairly massive rewrite would be required. Shortly >>>>>> >>>>> after >>>> >>>>> they released http://feathersui.com/ and I will say that it is a nice >>>>>> >>>>> bit >>>> >>>>> of work. I would look at that. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM, sébastien Paturel >>>>>> <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi jonathan, >>>>>> >>>>>>> What is the state of this very promising project? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Le 14/06/2012 18:46, Jonathan Campos a écrit : >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Recently I've been getting aquatinted with Starling to see if it >>>>>>> >>>>>> could >>>> >>>>> work >>>>>>>> with Flex. After a few days of playing I think that it is possible >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> but I >>>> >>>>> do >>>>>>>> see the issues now and there is plenty of work that is necessary to >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> make >>>> >>>>> it >>>>>>>> happen. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> To get things going I basically cut down the UIComponent (to the >>>>>>>> parts >>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>> I cared about), made a copy of the entire Flex framework (as many >>>>>>>> interfaces rely on DisplayObject, etc), replaced them with Starling >>>>>>>> classes, rebuilt some of the Spark primitives, and "adjusted" some of >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> starling classes to fit some of the Flash interfaces. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> At this point I'm definitely going to wait to get the 4.8 release out >>>>>>>> before giving this more time but I think it is possible. I'm sure >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> other >>>> >>>>> developers are already aware of it but if we could make some new >>>>>>>> interfaces >>>>>>>> such as an IDisplayObject it would be much easier switching out >>>>>>>> DisplayObject for a Starling DisplayObject. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Just thinking out loud at this point. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
