Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

Hi, Eveything been done that I can see except: - Write and publish blog (I put a draft one up a while back but no one commented on it) - Update front page news to point to blog - Update front page image to say 4.11 not 4.10 - Announce release of SDK 4.11 on lists - Announce release of Installer 2

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Eveything been done that I can see except: > - Write and publish blog (I put a draft one up a while back but no one > commented on it) > I saw Nick's email saying that he was going to do it. > - Update front page news to point to

Re: svn commit: r884446 - in /websites/staging/flex/trunk: cgi-bin/ content/ content/images/slider4.jpg content/index.html

Hi, The link to the blog isn't correct - mind reverting? Justin

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

HI, > I saw Nick's email saying that he was going to do it. Yep lets leave it for him - no idea how to get access to the blog area anyway. > I have added a new entry in the news 'Latest news' section. Mind removing that so I can publish the site. Thanks, Justin

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

On Oct 28, 2013 12:11 AM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > > HI, > > > I saw Nick's email saying that he was going to do it. > > Yep lets leave it for him - no idea how to get access to the blog area anyway. > > > I have added a new entry in the news 'Latest news' section. > Mind removing that so I can pu

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Flex 4.11.0 released

The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex 4.11.0 Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphon

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

Hi, > Can you revert it yourself? Not near a computer now. Done and published. Justin

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

Hi, Also someone mind updating this page once the blog page has been done. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Recent+Releases Thanks, Justin

How to create generic skins, manage layouts and manage views for multiple clients in flex application?

I'm working on enterprise level AIR application, i need to change my application UI for multiple clients, it has a complex UI with more that 250 MXML skin files for all display objects such as buttons, combo box, containers, etc., *Theme problem:* Is it possible to create a generic skin library

Re: How to create generic skins, manage layouts and manage views for multiple clients in flex application?

Hi, > Is there any easy way to create a skinning themes in flex and managing > assets(icons, fxg) in library? You can load CSS compiled into a swf at runtime. The swf loaded could be based on a client id in an xml file or even the URL the application was loaded from or variables passing into the

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi, I maybe found a faster way to give the users a legal access to all the mavenized SDKs to use used with FlexMojos 6.x: >From the Installer, users already have to accept licenses for the third party artifacts, for those users I can grant access to a online maven repo which serves the Mavenized

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

@ Thomas Can you give me the 4.10 Mavenized sdk. I have some problems here because when i run the mavenizer for the SDK i get a java error that i can not connect. Exception in thread "main" com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi Miguel, I can understand your frustration, at the moment it is public but without a way to make the users to accept the Adobe licenses, it is not the way to go, anyway, Velo did it for years, I guess I can do it for few days, this is the public repo url to add to your settings.xml [1] note, it

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Miguel, For you issue, you can anyway create a JIRA ticket with the command and args you used, I'll have a look. Thanks, -Fred -Message d'origine- De : Miguel Ferreira [mailto:miguel.cd.ferre...@hotmail.com] Envoyé : lundi 28 octobre 2013 09:49 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : RE: Add Ma

Re: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi, > From the Installer, users already have to accept licenses for the third > party artifacts, for those users I can grant access to a online maven repo > which serves the Mavenized SDKs What to stop users sharing that URL and/or user credentials around? > I can even add the lasts nightly maven

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi Justin, >What to stop users sharing that URL and/or user credentials around? I thought about it too and ended to think I don't want to add more restrictions than what exists today, I mean today, once you accepted a license and downloaded an Adobe Artifact, you can share it as you like, that's

Re: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

I'm sorry for such a late report, but the issue is still there in 4.11 release (4.11.0.20131017). flex-config.xml contains invalid names like framework_4.11.0.0.swf On 09.08.2013 15:11, Justin Mclean wrote: Hi, Fixed and checked in. https://github.com/apache/flex-sdk/commit/9f3efa46684bf26381b

AW: How to create generic skins, manage layouts and manage views for multiple clients in flex application?

Hi, Well I use the Approach described by Justin not only for providing different Looks for different Customers, but also for delivering different Skin SWFs for different Client types: Destop, Destkop-Low-Res, Mobile, Tablet. Depending on the type of Client, my application loads different SWF m

AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Still I can't really see what would be the Problem to add the mavenizer to the Installer? I guess this would resolve any legal Problems. I do see some Major Speed improvement Option to Switch the Deployer to use Mavens wagon instead of making hundreds of mvn-calls, but adding the mavenizer to th

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

1- I'm short of time at the moment and that's a long run even without thinking to integrate with the actual code 2- Anyway, before I integrate anything in the actual code of the installer, its code needs to be refactored 3- There's no jar produced at the moment for the converter, that something to

RE: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

Just checked you are correct :( Note: It doesn't seem to affect the mavenized sdk. @Alex, @Chris, does IJ or FM uses the flex-config.xml from the config zip in some way ? -Fred -Message d'origine- De : Alexander Doroshko [mailto:alexander.doros...@jetbrains.com] Envoyé : lundi 28 octobr

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Chris, Arff, I've been to quick, don't consider my 4th arguments, I was thinking to something else :-) -Fred -Message d'origine- De : Frédéric THOMAS [mailto:webdoubl...@hotmail.com] Envoyé : lundi 28 octobre 2013 10:54 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Justin, If I calculate well, the VM should be able to serve up to 2000 Flex/AIR SDKs a month, maybe a bit less, depending how much time the CPU will be used in the month, I added another HDD to secure the data, it has a cost too, once the build script will be done for the nightly builds and one mo

Re: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

IJ doesn't use flex-config.xml from the config zip in case of Flexmojos project. Not sure about Flexmojos itself. Anyway if you don't use Flex framework as RSLs you won't be affected by this bug. On 28.10.2013 14:00, Frédéric THOMAS wrote: Just checked you are correct :( Note: It doesn't seem

RE: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

I have checked the nightly build of flex-sdk-release on Jenkins, and the rsls are set correctly in flex-config.xml and air-config.xml build.xml file is also correct. It has probably something to do with the 4.11 RC2 delivery itself. So I guess we will have to wait for Justin or Alex to understa

RE: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

This sounds very exciting to me. I would still like the option to use the mavenizer though. But I agree that it will make things much smoother for most users. On 28 Oct 2013 12:24, "Frédéric THOMAS" wrote: > Justin, > > If I calculate well, the VM should be able to serve up to 2000 Flex/AIR > SDK

Re: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

Hi, > I'm sorry for such a late report, but the issue is still there in 4.11 > release (4.11.0.20131017). > flex-config.xml contains invalid names like > framework_4.11.0.0.swf How did you install the 4.11.0 SDK? Thanks, Justin

Re: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

On 28.10.2013 15:04, Justin Mclean wrote: I'm sorry for such a late report, but the issue is still there in 4.11 release (4.11.0.20131017). flex-config.xml contains invalid names like framework_4.11.0.0.swf How did you install the 4.11.0 SDK? Using installer 2.7.0

AW: Flex SDK 4.10: RSL URLs in flex-config.xml do not match file in framework/rsls/

Well I remember that I pack up everything in the FDK Directory (leaving away some stuff) and provide this zip. I also know that in FM this zip is important and it is used. I guess the Flex-config.xml is probably used as I guess this is the central Piece of Information in the zip. I will have a

AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

But from my experiance it is usually more difficult to convince the Company-Repo admins to add a "no-name" repo as source. At least most of the companies I've worked for. And deploying of a new Flex Version would probably not be done by any ordinary developer, but by one Special Person that is

Re: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Yes, that is why I would still want the mavenizer available. However with continuous deployment being more popular, and the availability of free jenkin servers, I would not assume that everyone who needs maven has a team to deal with it. On 28 Oct 2013 13:21, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" wrote:

RE: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

You're right, that's my exp too but from the company I'm working for at the moment, this is the only way as the installer doesn't work from here plus,I don't think an ApacheFlex VM managed by PMCs and almost dedicated to it will be "no-name" for long time :-) Frédéric THOMAS > From: christofe

Mozilla takes on Flash

Does anyone have an idea what this [1] means to us? [1] http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/10/mozilla-takes-on-flash/?goback=%2Egde_4296888_member_5797420905202204675#%21 -- Sebastian (PMC) Interaction Designer Looking for a Login Examplew

AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Well in that case, I would opt for creating an Apache Flex account at sonatype and to Stage and Deploy stuff there ... (The way Velo did it) ... I guess there is legally no real difference between a Company repo and the big sonatype repo. Actually we don't have permission to publish stuff in eit

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

There is a blog post in that link, at the end of which this is what the author says: "SWF content that use the Flex SDK should seriously consider converting the application to HTML5 directly (without Shumway) as this allows you to use web-native controls that take advantage of web platform features

RE: Mozilla takes on Flash

Hi Sebastian, Thanks for sharing the link. I believe this is more of a competitor to FlexJS, although Shumway seems more aimed at Flash SWFs. It would be interesting to make comparisons between the two, in terms of performance , even if they are not at the same level of completion. Maurice

RE: Mozilla takes on Flash

Look at the source code of this page. http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/examples/inspector/inspector.html?rfile=../Box2DFlashAS3/demo.swf Interesting... Maurice -Message d'origine- De : Maurice Amsellem [mailto:maurice.amsel...@systar.com] Envoyé : lundi 28 octobre 2013 14:36 À : d

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Why is adobe being so stupid? That's all I have to wonder... brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47 On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Maurice Amsellem < maurice.amsel...@systar.com> wrote: > Look at the source code of this page. > > > http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/ex

RE: Mozilla takes on Flash

Adobe likes to kill... The way that they change focus is scary. i think when adobe will have new technologies a company will think about 10 times before it adopts adobe solutions... Is very sad but is the reality. > From: akess...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:04:12 +0200 > Subject: Re: M

RE: Mozilla takes on Flash

This would be great in my mind for Flex and Flash in terms of reach. I think Adobe will continue to improve the runtimes, which is great and getting better. However, if this open source project could allow swf content to be played on platforms (Apple) that purposefully block the runtimes then th

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Shumway is a plugin. It's a plugin that only runs on firefox. Apple is not going to adopt it, as the reason they didn't adopt flash had nothing to do with performance (HTML5 also runs slow on iphones), and everything to do with competing with apps. It's not going to cause adoption. Though maybe

RE: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Chris, Do you think Sonatype would allows the creation of specific user granted to download the SDK ? It would be nice but I'm not sure, plus I would need to deal with their heavy process to deal with snapshot and release on non-maven built projects, I don't today, I just upload a zip and tomo

AW: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Well at sonatype they do distinguish between SNAPSHOT and Release Versions. So the process of updating SNAPSHOTS is far less complicated than that of deploying Releases. But I still think that your process of creating individual users will introduce some Problems (Settings.xml sharing) Neverthe

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

That's pretty fair I think. It's irrational for Adobe to just give away their runtime that they've invested lots of money in though too so that probably won't happen. Maybe you could get firefox as an app on ios with this plugin but maybe they don't allow other browsers besides safari. -O

Re: AW: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

As usual, I'm not sure I understand Maven and Maven-izing, so apologies if I'm way off base: IIRC, the Mavenizer's main goal is to install Adobe and other third-party assets to a on a build machine. Is that correct? I can certainly see the Installer doing that, but yes, there was a recent discus

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

On 10/28/13 6:36 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" wrote: >Hi Sebastian, > >Thanks for sharing the link. > >I believe this is more of a competitor to FlexJS, although Shumway seems >more aimed at Flash SWFs. IMO, Flash is rendering-centric, and browsers have been text and interaction-centric and that dif

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

OK, I'll bite. Stupid about what? On 10/28/13 7:04 AM, "Avi Kessner" wrote: >Why is adobe being so stupid? That's all I have to wonder... > >brought to you by the letters A, V, and I >and the number 47 > > >On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Maurice Amsellem < >maurice.amsel...@systar.com> wrote

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

About this whole Flash/Actionscript/Flex debacle. They destroyed customer relations, while continuing to build up the flash player. They make things open source, while making the ability to consume it proprietary, and yet make no profit from that proprietary technology. (yes I'm aware about the li

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

done. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Also someone mind updating this page once the blog page has been done. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Recent+Releases > > Thanks, > Justin >

RE: Mozilla takes on Flash

>Shumway is a plugin. It's not a plugin. You probably need to take a look at the project and the code. Yes, they say in that article is a browser extension, but effectively it is a core JS library that acts as a Flash Player virtual machine but executing inside of the JavaScript VM. I am not s

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Well, I'm an Adobe employee, but not an official spokesperson, so the following is just my personal opinion. 1) I'm not sure your claims of making no profit is accurate 2) I'm not sure what "developer tools" you are referring to, but Adobe is definitely all about creatives these days. 3) FlexJS st

RE: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

> Well at sonatype they do distinguish between SNAPSHOT and Release Versions. So the process of updating SNAPSHOTS is far less complicated than that of deploying Releases Indeed but can I upload a zip instead of doing a deploy at sonatype? I never tried but actually, I wouldn't use the Deployer to

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Hi Alex, I'm Rupen - Nice to talk to you, I would like to mention that I have been a Flex Developer for now 7 years, been a software engineer for 13 years, and have ventured into different UI technologies such as C#(WPF), SilverLight, and other Javascript lib's. Recently I have worked in a "green-

RE: AW: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi Alex, > IIRC, the Mavenizer's main goal is to install Adobe and other third-party assets to a on a build machine. Is that correct? Yes in the meaning a company where devs use Maven has generally a CI and No because even though it is not a corporate use, we still gave the possibility to the de

RE: AW: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hopefully I'll be soon in England and improve my English :-) -Message d'origine- De : Frédéric THOMAS [mailto:webdoubl...@hotmail.com] Envoyé : lundi 28 octobre 2013 20:34 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : RE: AW: AW: AW: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer Hi Alex, > IIRC, the Maven

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

1. Interesting to hear that. Never got that impression before. 2. I was thinking of scout, the gaming sdk, FB, brackets, webfonts, and phonegap. 3. Yeah, I don't understand it :-) On 28 Oct 2013 20:34, "Alex Harui" wrote: > Well, I'm an Adobe employee, but not an official spokesperson, so the >

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Hi Rupen, We can use all kinds of help. It is pretty much up to you to decide. There are more components to be written, documentation, installers, examples, IDE integration, and more. If you like ExtJS, you can even try building out an ExtJS wrapper like we did for Jquery. The wiki is at [1] Th

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Hi Alex, Ok, Great. I am going to help out in all aspects as you mentioned. Thanks for the links provided below, I will go through them and follow the directions you provided to update everyone with the prefix [FlexJS] in our discussions. I have a question, Can I create an Activity Stream f

Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

Hi, it seems i have a bug with the new release, whith use of OSMF 2.0 i installed flex SDK in Flash builder with the latests installer, created a project which only contains a VideoPlayer and set a source value to a mp4 file threw http protocol (its the same with RTMP protocol and a VideoElemen

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

On 10/28/13 2:08 PM, "Rupen Gosrani" wrote: >Hi Alex, > > Ok, Great. I am going to help out in all aspects as you mentioned. Thanks > for the links provided below, I will go through them and follow the > directions you provided to update everyone with the prefix [FlexJS] in >our > discussions. >

Re: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

Sebastien, I dont think we have control over OSMF features. Have you tried posting in the OSMF forums? [1] Thanks, Om [1] http://forums.adobe.com/community/opensource/osmf On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:36 PM, sébastien Paturel wrote: > Hi, > it seems i have a bug with the new release, whith use o

RE: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

Do we know if it is an OSMF issue, or a Flex one? If OSMF 2.0 works fine with Flex 4.9 SDK (does it?), but not with 4.11, it seems something in the recent release here might have broken it. -Original Message- From: omup...@gmail.com [mailto:omup...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of OmPrakash Muppi

Re: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

Hi, Any chance you can provide some example code showing the issue? Thanks, Justin

Re: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

Hi, > Until now, the problem was we couldn't host the SDK in a public repo because > it would let those who download it, to download the third-party as well > without accept the Adobe licenses Hate to say this but but just because you accept the licences doesn't mean you can host the binaries pu

Re: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

thats why i asked here first :) after some more tests here is what i have: even without using Videolayer, meaning only using Sprite containing the OSMF component i still have the bug. but it is working fine with flex 4.10 and it is working fine with 4.11 if i disable stageVideo in OSMF with OSM

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

It's not irrational for Adobe to give away their runtime. They make money on it through DRM in video and other avenues. It's what they call a loss leader or as you want to call it now freemium. They also make tools that publish to it eg Flash Professional, FB, Flash Catalyst (rip), Illustrator (pub

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

*freemium in the loosest sense of the word as in this player part is free and there are these other tool parts you pay for. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:19 PM, jude wrote: > It's not irrational for Adobe to give away their runtime. They make money > on it through DRM in video and other avenues. It

Re: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

Hi, Looks like this[1] explains the issue and conains workarounds. 1. Add backgroundAlpha="0" to the Application container 2. OSMFSettings.enableStageVideo = false; We could do the second in the SDK but no idea if that is a good idea or not. Thanks, Justin 1. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/OSMF/

Flex 4.11 ASDoc link

Hi, I was so excited to download the latest Flex 4.11 SDK, but the link to its offline ASDoc is not quite apparent on the website, and I wonder if it could be mentioned at the following places: 1. SDK Download page 2. Download offline ASDoc as an option in the installer 3. In the online vers

Re: Flex 4.11 ASDoc link

Hi, > 1. SDK Download page There are already links to download the ASdocs on these pages: http://flex.apache.org/download-binaries.html http://flex.apache.org/download-source.html > 2. Download offline ASDoc as an option in the installer Nice idea, I've raised a JIRA for it here: https://issues

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

Ya I understand the idea but I don't really see how or why they would do what you are describing. They paid a lot of money to acquire the runtimes and have invested a lot in developing it and supporting it. It's also containing other technologies they have had to license presumably. The benefit

Re: Flex 4.11 ASDoc link

Took care of #3. There is now a download link in the header. This should point to the mirrors page to download the docs. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > 1. SDK Download page > There are already links to download the ASdocs on these pages: > http://flex.apache.

Re: Flex 4.11 + OSMF 2.0 => bug

point 2 is workaround to make it sure it display everytimes, but it disables the performance gains from stageVideo. I finally got everything clear now i think: as it is said in the link, justin provided, the stageVideo is displaid under the Display list, so everything that is drawn above can o

Re: Mozilla takes on Flash

On 10/28/13 6:14 PM, "f...@dfguy.us" wrote: > >My deal is I've always preferred the programming model in the flash >runtimes. The way you control graphics and objects and the organization >of flex project code is superior. Also the use of components and >extensibility of classes with flex and oo

Re: Add Mavenizer functionality to Installer

On 10/28/13 3:46 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> Until now, the problem was we couldn't host the SDK in a public repo >>because >> it would let those who download it, to download the third-party as well >> without accept the Adobe licenses > >Hate to say this but but just because you accep

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

How about a nice, re-tweetable tweet from ApacheFlex? EdB On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: > done. > > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Justin Mclean > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Also someone mind updating this page once the blog page has been done. >> >> https://cw

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.7

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Erik de Bruin wrote: > How about a nice, re-tweetable tweet from ApacheFlex? > > Done!