On 11/14/2012 12:06 PM, Maxime Cowez wrote: > I think it would be great if there were an AutoComplete component built > into Flex, but I do have some reservations with this approach. The biggest > issue from my point of view is that one company/person would decide what > the basic implementation will be, possibly making it harder for us to add > the things we need later on. >
Isn't all development like that, though? How many people did you converse with before you tried your own implementation? > true, but then I never intended my implementation to be the de facto standard and claimed that it would be donated to Apache Flex. > Is open-source development not supposed to be more about putting our ideas together? Or am I being too idealistic here? For instance: for an AutoComplete component to be truly compatible with the > existing Flex framework, I believe that its API should be as similar as > possible to a List component (i.e. it must expose 'selectedItem', > 'selectedItems', 'selectedIndices', etc. properties). If this kickstarter > project decides to implement the component otherwise, it might be very hard > to add this later on. > The existing Flextras AutoComplete extends the Flex ComboBox; which includes all those properties. The new development will be an off-shoot of the current Flextras AutoComplete. Current ASDocs are here: https://www.flextras.com/**AutoCompleteComboBox/docs/** asdocsSpark/spark/flextras/**autoCompleteComboBox/** AutoCompleteComboBoxLite.html<https://www.flextras.com/AutoCompleteComboBox/docs/asdocsSpark/spark/flextras/autoCompleteComboBox/AutoCompleteComboBoxLite.html> > I might be wrong, but I don't think `selectedItems` will return all the items that were selected using this AutoComplete, since this component does not display a list of these selected items. > Anyway I don't wish to discuss technicalities here; I was merely trying to give an example of a decision that may have great impact down the road, when the community takes over. To me it feels a bit like going back to the days that Adobe decided on the > basic implementation and we were allowed to give some feedback. I must > admit that feeling comes from the fact that I've put in a lot of hours > myself, and I may not have anything to say in this project, unless I > donated some money to the kickstarter project. Somehow that doesn't feel > right. > So, how do you propose I do things differently? Feel free to contact me privately if you prefer. > Let me give that some more thought. I'll get back to you. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com>wrote: > On 11/14/2012 12:06 PM, Maxime Cowez wrote: > >> I think it would be great if there were an AutoComplete component built >> into Flex, but I do have some reservations with this approach. The biggest >> issue from my point of view is that one company/person would decide what >> the basic implementation will be, possibly making it harder for us to add >> the things we need later on. >> > > Isn't all development like that, though? How many people did you > converse with before you tried your own implementation? > > > For instance: for an AutoComplete component to be truly compatible with >> the existing Flex framework, I believe that its API should be as similar as >> possible to a List component (i.e. it must expose 'selectedItem', >> 'selectedItems', 'selectedIndices', etc. properties). If this kickstarter >> project decides to implement the component otherwise, it might be very hard >> to add this later on. >> > > The existing Flextras AutoComplete extends the Flex ComboBox; which > includes all those properties. The new development will be an off-shoot of > the current Flextras AutoComplete. Current ASDocs are here: > https://www.flextras.com/**AutoCompleteComboBox/docs/** > asdocsSpark/spark/flextras/**autoCompleteComboBox/** > AutoCompleteComboBoxLite.html<https://www.flextras.com/AutoCompleteComboBox/docs/asdocsSpark/spark/flextras/autoCompleteComboBox/AutoCompleteComboBoxLite.html> > > > To me it feels a bit like going back to the days that Adobe decided on >> the basic implementation and we were allowed to give some feedback. I must >> admit that feeling comes from the fact that I've put in a lot of hours >> myself, and I may not have anything to say in this project, unless I >> donated some money to the kickstarter project. Somehow that doesn't feel >> right. >> > > So, how do you propose I do things differently? Feel free to contact me > privately if you prefer. > > > > -- > Jeffry Houser > Technical Entrepreneur > 203-379-0773 > -- > http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! > -- > http://www.theflexshow.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > http://www.asktheflexpert.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > >
