RE: Life after FlashPlayer, are you prepared?
Hi Olaf, thanks for asking! Short answer: No, I will probably have to retire (not joking), and take down all our online programs which are helping so many to deal with English language and literacy skills today. Yes, I do need to use browser delivery, in addition to desktop versions using old Toolbook and Flex/AIR I have followed FlexJS and tried several installs, but the development has taken so long, is not stable, and is nowhere near the functionality I need, especially in terms of interaction with text and ausio. I have tried to recode in js/HTML5 using HAXE (and others), but cannot get the required interactive functionality for even the simplest of our applications. I don't understand, given the enormous volume of quality learning resources produced for FlashPlayer, why no-one has come up with a good alternative. Pretty much all the functionality has been around since the '90s, but demise of FP is just part of the whole dumbing down of quality interactive learning today (IMHO, that is). If FP poses such a security risk (really?), then why isn't someone with the skills able to excise/wall-off or whatever, those parts so we can still have a powerful browser language for interactive apps? Why??? I know our apps are 'old school', but guess what? They are still in demand 20 years after publication, because they are truly interactive. Please, can't someone come up with a solution? Thanks again for raising this for discussion. Virginia Dr Virginia Westwood | Director Protea Textware Pty Ltd ABN 72 077 575 047 PO Box 8480 Broome WA 6725 Australia p: (+61 8)/(08) 9192 8390 m: (+61 4)/(04) 0897 1446 w: http://www.proteatextware.com s: virginia.westwood We respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Country on which we live and work, and commit to building relationships, respect and opportunities together. -Original Message- From: Olaf Krueger Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 3:28 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Life after FlashPlayer, are you prepared? Hello from the Apache Royale (FlexJS) team, even if Flex with AIR is still an awesome and outstanding technology, Flex in the browser ends with the end of FlashPlayer in 2020. To be clear: There will be no way to run your Flex apps in current browser versions around 2020! The Flex mailing lists are followed by a few hundred people and we assume that there are still a lot of Flex browser apps out there. So, we are really interested in what you are planning to do with your Flex apps, e.g. - Do you need to stick with the browser at all? - Do you plan to migrate your Flex apps to whatever other technology? - Did you already migrate your Flex apps to whatever other technology? - ... If you are reading this post and have a Flex app, please speak up about what your plans are! Thanks, The Apache Royale (FlexJS) team -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/
FlexJS compiler support for FDT
Hi developers at flex.apache.org a few days ago Om Muppirala had added a new feature request to our Jira to support the FlexJS Compiler in FDT (http://bugs.powerflasher.com/jira/browse/FDT-3281). I already added a list of our typical requirements for external software to this ticket. Nevertheless I was curious about your progress and so I followed the steps at: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Using+FlexJS+with+Adobe+Flash+Builder At the point where Flash Builder should launch a special launch configuration to compile the example project with the FlexJS compiler I decided to try this step with the windows command line since this part should be done by FDT as a first step to support the FlexJS compiler. Unfortunately this attempt failed. Maybe you could give me a hint what I should change in the command line or what files are missing in my FlexJS SDK. The command line I used is this: D:\NewSdks\ApacheFlexJS>java -Xmx384m -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Dflexcompiler="D:\NewSdks\ApacheFlexJS" -Dflexlib="D:\NewSdks\ApacheFlexJS\frameworks" -jar D:\NewSdks\ApacheFle xJS\js\lib\mxmlc.jar -compiler.mxml.children-as-data -compiler.binding-value-change-event-type=valueChange -js-output-type=FLEXJS -closure-lib=D:\NewSdks\closure-library-20130212 -sdk-js-lib=D:\NewSdks\ ApacheFlexJS\frameworks\js\FlexJS\src -target-player=11.9 -library-path+=D:\NewSdks\ApacheFlexJS/frameworks/as/libs/FlexJSUI.swc -source-path=D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest/src -output=D:\TesT Area\TestProjects\DataBindingTest/bin -- D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest/src/DataBindingTest.mxml The result shows some exceptions during compilation and one error: outputBindingInfoAsData Compiling file: D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest\bin\js-debug\DataBindingTest.js Compiling file: D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest\bin\js-debug\controllers\MyController.js Compiling file: D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest\bin\js-debug\MyInitialView.js Compiling file: D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest\bin\js-debug\models\MyModel.js Compiling file: D:\TesTArea\TestProjects\DataBindingTest\bin\js-debug\StockDataJSONItemConverter.js Could not find file for class: org.apache.flex.html.staticControls.supportClasses.Border java.io.FileNotFoundException: at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.getDirectDependencies(GoogDepsWriter.java:252) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:122) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.buildDB(GoogDepsWriter.java:78) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.generateDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:49) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.codegen.mxml.flexjs.MXMLFlexJSPublisher.publish(MXMLFlexJSPublisher.java:135) at org.apache.flex.compiler.clients.MXMLJSC.compile(MXMLJSC.java:421) at org.apache.flex.compiler.clients.MXMLJSC._mainNoExit(MXMLJSC.java:261) at org.apache.flex.compiler.clients.MXMLJSC.mainNoExit(MXMLJSC.java:219) at org.apache.flex.compiler.clients.MXMLJSC.main(MXMLJSC.java:181) Could not find file for class: org.apache.flex.html.staticControls.supportClasses.ScrollBar java.io.FileNotFoundException: (Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileInputStream.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.getDirectDependencies(GoogDepsWriter.java:252) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:122) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.addDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:137) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.buildDB(GoogDepsWriter.java:78) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.graph.GoogDepsWriter.generateDeps(GoogDepsWriter.java:49) at org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.codegen.mxml.flexjs.MXMLFlexJSPublisher.
