Ok,
Challenge accepted.
I was just looking through the cmc-js.jbg file. I actually think this
might be doable. The JavaScript impl looks very complicated but,
that's because it's doing a lot of things right now as far as building
the .js code.
I'm going to start small and see what I get. The first order of
business is just trying to hack together the base framework (emitter)
using FalconJS as a template.
If I can get C working we are going somwhere. That will take awhile,
I'll let you know what I discover.
Mike
Quoting Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>:
On 11/28/12 11:27 AM, "Michael Schmalle" <apa...@teotigraphix.com> wrote:
Are we creating just views? Are we creating business logic? As you can
see I have confused myself here.
What would be really kewl is if someone reading this says, Mike I bet
you can go from A to B to C then D. If I saw the whole prototype flow
in front of me I probably could make it work some how.
OK, so if you take the code I've checked in, the workflow is this:
A) Developer had FlexJSTestMXML.mxml and MyInitialViewMXML.mxml and Model.as
and Controller.as
B) I hand-converted FlexJSTestMXML.mxml to FlexJSTest.as and
MyInitialViewMXML.mxml to MyInitialView.as
C) I feed FlexJSTest.as and FlexJSUI.swc to FalconJS
D) I get a bunch of JS files
E) I mimic the AS controls in FlexJSUI.swc in js/framework.js
F) I hand-create an index.html to load all of the .js files
G) I run it in the browser (FireFox).
The parallel as I see it is that you start with B and:
C') Feed FlexJSTest.as and FlexJSUI.swc to FalconJava
D') You get a .jar
E') You mimic the AS controls in FlexJSUI.swc in java/framework.jar. They
should be thin wrappers on native Android controls, just like framework.js
is a thin wrapper on native HTML controls
F') You package it up into an APK.
G') You run it on Android device.
JBurg is just grammar, it took me about 3 months to finally learn
ANTLR and it's rewriting syntax. So if I had a clear path of what I
was trying to prototype with Java I would put time into learning JBurg.
What would be interesting is paralleling what you are implementing in
JS (your proto components) with Java Android. I know some people would
say this is ridiculous but it would be a path to a prototype.
What I don't know is if it is 'ridiculous' or not. If it isn't, it could be
pretty cool.
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
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Michael Schmalle - Teoti Graphix, LLC
http://www.teotigraphix.com
http://blog.teotigraphix.com
