Flex 4 features that were lost in Spark.

2014-02-23 Thread Avi Kessner
I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time, but I didn't have any concrete examples. Do we have a sub project devoted to features that existed in flex 4 mx but were lost in Spark? For example, a simple feature here, with editable List item renderers. http://dgrigg.com/blog/2010/06/25/

Re: Flex 4 features that were lost in Spark.

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Do we have a sub project devoted to features that existed in flex 4 mx but > were lost in Spark? If you need it add a patch :-) But yes there have been a couple of things added that were in mx but missing in spark. Thanks, Justin

Re: Flex 4 features that were lost in Spark.

2014-02-23 Thread Avi Kessner
So it's just a case by case basis? If we wanted to advertise the retro improvements, somebody would have to do their own compilation? brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47 On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Do we have a sub project devoted

Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
Hi team, Piotr has raised an interesting issue in mobile apps: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34107 When using a large font (size > 40) with IconItemRenderer on spark List, the bottom separators between items are not displayed. After some hours of debugging, I finally found the caus

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
The TextField extent is surprising to me. What does it mean to be 15% larger? What does transform.pixelbounds show? Does it have to do with the border or background property? -Alex From: Maurice Amsellem [maurice.amsel...@systar.com] Sent: Sunday, Febr

[VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Please vote to approve Apache Flex SDK Installer version 3.0 to be released. Issues addressed in this release: - Installer upgraded to run ant scripts in the binary packages it installs. - Dev builds are now hidden by default. To see dev builds, right-click and choose "Show Dev Builds" - You c

[DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
This is the discussion thread. Thanks, -Alex

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread piotr.zarzycki
Hi Alex. This is how looks installer on my computer Windows 7 -> http://images.devs-on.net/Image/xkuDRfSRRxyJNdTA-Obszar.png Browse folder for sdk installation doesn't work. Piotr - Flex/Air developer. piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-develop

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
The 15% was an empirical finding based on comparing "unscaledHeight" and the apparent physical height in pixels of the renderered item. So let's forget this for a moment, as I don't know where it comes from. Searching more, I found something else: StylableTextField has "useTightTextBounds=true",

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Feb 23, 2014 10:18 AM, "piotr.zarzycki" wrote: > > Hi Alex. > > This is how looks installer on my computer Windows 7 -> > http://images.devs-on.net/Image/xkuDRfSRRxyJNdTA-Obszar.png > > Browse folder for sdk installation doesn't work. > > I saw this once. It seems that sometimes the default p

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
That screen shot showed the cache dialog, not the folder you choose for the installation. Is the browse button in the cache dialog not working or the one where you choose the folder? The cache folder buttons are using the same skin so as the main dialog so they look grey but still work for me

RE: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
Should we remove any existing install before testing ? Maurice -Message d'origine- De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : dimanche 23 février 2014 17:56 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1 Please vote to approve Apache Flex SDK

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
I agree that the logic may need fixing. It may not have been tested at large font sizes. IIRC, tight text bounds tries to ignore the "gutter" around the textfield. There is always a few more pixels in the TextField around the actual text. -Alex From: M

Re: [FLEXJS] IDE integration discussion

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, as I'm a IntelliJ IDEA user (and no longer a FB user), I'm interested in this thread and have some question, hope @Erik, @Alex or @Om could know something about it: 1) The thread start with some FDT points proposed to get IDE support. As Erik state most of then are solved. @Erik, is this righ

Re: [FLEXJS] IDE integration discussion

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
It would be great to have a intellij user use the new installer rc to install flexjs and see if it works. The overlay is soon to be obsolete. The ant scripts should be cross compiling and leaving results in the bin folder Sent via the PANTECH Discover, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone. Carlos Rovir

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
>I agree that the logic may need fixing. It may not have been tested at large >font sizes Yes. In fact, for small enough fonts, the measuring/layout computations approximations were somehow compensated by big enough paddings. I have seen that useTightTextBound=true is for regural text and us

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
Few remarks after running RC2 isntaller: -major: *AIR* version list shows "AIR 13beta" - Major: changed the download cache to a different location, but it was not taken into account (directory empty at the end of the installation). - Minor: Download cache configuration popup is not centered - mi

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
> changed the download cache to a different location, but it was not taken into > account (directory empty at the end of the installation). In fact, I entered a directory in the input field, but unchecked "Use Download cache" because I thought it was a default location. So it's expected behavio

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
-1 Binding I downloaded the source and tried to build using the command line instructions. It seems like the README file has not been updated. Quite a lot has changed since the last release. Especially, the sections: "How to build the installer using ANT (no Flash Builder or any other IDE req

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Maurice Amsellem
More findings (and questions): I am considering the case when StyleableTextField useTightTextBound=true (regular r/o labels): 1) getPreferredBoundsHeight() returns tightTextHeight (which is basically the pixel height of "T" for single line text, and top pixel to baseline of last line for mult

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Hi, I'm right now trying to install FlexJS with this RC, but the combo only > shows Flex SDK 4.x versions (9, 10 and 11). How could I install FlexJS with > this installer? I'm missing something? Right click "Show Dev Builds". Justin

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, As noted in the the vote thread - looks like the installer isn't setting the versions in the flash and AIR config files. While there a work around to this eg do it yourself it would probably cause a bit of confusion. Other minor issues I found (some others have also pointed out) - NOTICE +

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, I'm right now trying to install FlexJS with this RC, but the combo only shows Flex SDK 4.x versions (9, 10 and 11). How could I install FlexJS with this installer? I'm missing something? Thanks 2014-02-23 23:26 GMT+01:00 Justin Mclean : > Hi, > > Looks like the caching mechanism is broken a

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Tested on OSX. Had a few minor issue due to new security model on Mavericks (can't run because application is not signed) but not sure that we can do anything about that. -1 (binding) because of: - README, RELEASE_GUIDE and RELEASE_NOTES need updating. - build error when running ant on sour

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Looks like the caching mechanism is broken at a guess it remembers your settings in the dialog box but seems to ignore then and the second run though. Thanks, Justin

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread piotr.zarzycki
Sorry Alex I was not precise. Screen 1 - no labels -> http://images.devs-on.net/Image/gQsyAKKo76YwzOM4-Obszar.png Screen 2 - Close button ("x") do not work. I think it should be hide becouse we have cancel button for closing this windows. -> http://images.devs-on.net/Image/CkqZu8xSHqT6ucxG-Obszar.

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Thanks Justin, I'll try "Apache FlexJS Nightly" (with AIR13(beta) + Flash Player 13.0(beta)) and test the integration in IntelliJ (as proposed by Alex) 2014-02-23 23:30 GMT+01:00 Justin Mclean : > Hi, > > > Hi, I'm right now trying to install FlexJS with this RC, but the combo > only > > shows

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Screen 1 - no labels -> > http://images.devs-on.net/Image/gQsyAKKo76YwzOM4-Obszar.png > Screen 2 - Close button ("x") do not work. I think it should be hide becouse > we have cancel button for closing this windows. -> > http://images.devs-on.net/Image/CkqZu8xSHqT6ucxG-Obszar.png > Screen 3 -

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, the installer crashed. I attached the crash report. It seems the same issue I had the first time the installer was released for testing. I'll try to see what could be the problem, but right now I don't know what could be the cause of a crash like this btw, great work detecting the previous ve

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
btw, I'm on a MacBook Pro (2011), 2,3GHz Corei7, 8Gb and OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) 2014-02-23 23:46 GMT+01:00 Carlos Rovira : > Hi, > > the installer crashed. I attached the crash report. It seems the same > issue I had the first time the installer was released for testing. I'll try > to see what

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Your symptoms imply that the installer can't access flex.a.o. Is that possible? Sent via the PANTECH Discover, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone. "piotr.zarzycki" wrote: Sorry Alex I was not precise. Screen 1 - no labels -> http://images.devs-on.net/Image/gQsyAKKo76YwzOM4-Obszar.png Screen 2 - Clo

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, -1 since in my case the installer is crashing. I'm looking for the problem to see if is something related to my machine 2014-02-23 23:24 GMT+01:00 Justin Mclean : > Hi, > > Tested on OSX. Had a few minor issue due to new security model on > Mavericks (can't run because application is not si

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Jose Barragan
Same problem here… Even when the locale configuration is changed. In fact my mac it's configured with the locale "en_US" by default…. (MacBook Pro, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB, OS X 10.9.1) On 23 Feb 2014, at 23:57, Alex Harui wrote: > Screen 1 - no labels -> >

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Jose Barragan
-1 since the installer don’t work properly, no progressing and no labels… On 24 Feb 2014, at 00:01, Carlos Rovira wrote: > Hi, > > -1 since in my case the installer is crashing. I'm looking for the problem > to see if is something related to my machine > > > 2014-02-23 23:24 GMT+01:00 Justin

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Are you able to access http://flex.apache.org/installer/sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml? Sent via the PANTECH Discover, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone. Jose Barragan wrote: Same problem here… Even when the locale configuration is changed. In fact my mac it's configured with the locale "en_US" by

RE: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
FWIW, the doc implies there is no JSON class in FP 10.x. Do we care? -Alex From: jmcl...@apache.org [jmcl...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 4:22 PM To: comm...@flex.apache.org Subject: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 a

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Currently, the installer does not cache the binary kit, only its dependencies (and only for ant-based installs, not 4.11 and older). I chose not to cache the binary kit because we point to the nightly builds and we don't want to cache those. I suppose I could add more data to the sdk-installer

Re: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > FWIW, the doc implies there is no JSON class in FP 10.x. Do we care? Currently we support 10.2 +10.3, I have no idea how people still use that but seem silly to drop support for those for just this feature. I'll change so it compiles for those but returns nothing. Thanks, Justin

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
HI, > Currently, the installer does not cache the binary kit, only its dependencies > (and only for ant-based installs, not 4.11 and older). I chose not to cache > the binary kit because we point to the nightly builds and we don't want to > cache those. Would be handy I think eg if someone j

RE: Need your help on problem with opaqueBackground

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Hmm. I looked quickly at how tightTextHeight gets computed and it seems to use measuredTextSize.y which seems to use textHeight, which I thought included descent if there are any descenders in the glyphs for the text to be displayed. So to me, the code looks ok, but I'm not debugging into it l

RE: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
I think this RC should cause an upgrade dialog. Not sure. Om might know for sure. -Alex From: Maurice Amsellem [maurice.amsel...@systar.com] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:09 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache Flex SDK Inst

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > I think this RC should cause an upgrade dialog. Not sure. Om might know > for sure. > > An upgrade dialog would come up only when the version.latest node is updated in this xml: http://flex.apache.org/installer/sdk-installer-config-3.1.xml W

Re: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Turns out no need to change anything to compile under 10.2, but you do get a RTE if you directly call toJSON ("Variable JSON is not defined.") - that's probably OK given that no existing code would be calling it in 10.2 and someone using 10.2 is unlikely to directly call it and the minimum

RE: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
I'm trying to figure out in my head why you didn't get a compile error when compiling for 10.2. Did you have a playerglobal from 10.2? -Alex From: Justin Mclean [jus...@classsoftware.com] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:35 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Sub

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
I'm not seeing the crash report. Can you just paste it or put it in paste.apache.org or similar place? Thanks, -Alex From: carlos.rov...@gmail.com [carlos.rov...@gmail.com] on behalf of Carlos Rovira [carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com] Sent: Sunday, February

Re: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Turns out no need to change anything to compile under 10.2, but you do get > a RTE if you directly call toJSON ("Variable JSON is not defined.") - > that's probably OK given that no existing code would be calling it in 10.2 > and some

Re: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I'm trying to figure out in my head why you didn't get a compile error when > compiling for 10.2. Did you have a playerglobal from 10.2? Yep and changed the flex-config.xml file to be 10.2 and swf version 11 and everything - you did get a RTE as described. Thanks, Justin

Broken image links in Flex Showcase

2014-02-23 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
The iQ Agenda app seems to have its images missing here [1] Maurice, perhaps you can take a look? Thanks, Om [1] http://flex.apache.org/community-showcase.html

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
No, it can't be that. You must be able to do so otherwise the list of versions to install wouldn't be there. The next thing it tries to do is load en_US strings. It should be hitting: http://flex.apache.org/installer/properties/en_US.properties Is that link working for you? Also, what langua

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Also, what was in the log? Thanks, -Alex From: Alex Harui [aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:59 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org; Jose Barragan Cc: piotr.zarzycki Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1 No, it

RE: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Does it make sense to you that you didn't get a compile error? Anyway, probably not worth spending too much more time on it. I really can't imagine any 10.2 users compiling the SDK from source. -Alex From: Justin Mclean [jus...@classsoftware.com] Sent:

Re: git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34108 add toJSON to ArrayCollection and ArrayList

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Does it make sense to you that you didn't get a compile error? Not really to be honest I would expected "Access of undefined property JSON". Perhaps the build script it not picking up the FP version from flex-config.xml (as described in the README)? Yep confirmed with (in this case I do

RE: [1/2] git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - Now able to compile on 10.2 and 10.3 which doesn't have JSON support

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Wow, didn't know you could do this["JSON"] to access a top-level class. I guess that works because of lexical scoping? I think other places in the SDK use ApplicationDomain.hasDefinition/getDefinition. -Alex From: jmcl...@apache.org [jmcl...@apache.org]

Re: [1/2] git commit: [flex-sdk] [refs/heads/develop] - Now able to compile on 10.2 and 10.3 which doesn't have JSON support

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Wow, didn't know you could do this["JSON"] to access a top-level class. Well it compiles but doesn't work so scrap that idea. > I think other places in the SDK use > ApplicationDomain.hasDefinition/getDefinition. Guess I have to use that. Thanks, Justin

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread piotr.zarzycki
I have checked installer on my laptop with Windows 7 and it looks exactly the same. Additionally I've switched off my firewall - didn't help. flex.a.o ?? - Flex/Air developer. piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/DI

Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > flex.a.o ?? flex .apache .org Justin

RE: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.0 - RC1

2014-02-23 Thread Alex Harui
Apache folks have a convention of using 'a' and 'o' for 'apache' and 'org'. I assume it is so we don't get as much spam. Anyway, can you tell me what the installer log says? Thanks, -Alex From: piotr.zarzycki [piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, Feb