Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 09:39, Michael A. Labriola wrote: That's too bad because we are running into issues with file system path length limitations on Windows in our local Perforce workspace, even with our root in C:\.perforce. As far as I can see, neither buildbot nor Jenkins (the two systems offered

Re: [Discussion] Printing from Flex

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 05/02/2012 09:40, jude wrote: If you create an example like this, http... I think the license under which that example posted this code is pretty unacceptable. Also it is easier to discuss code properly if we post code at github. yours Martin.

Re: [Discussion] Printing from Flex

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
I tried to summarize the discussion around Printing in the wiki. [1] I am not sure which way to go from here. I got this crazy idea in my head to create a html representation of the UI that then can be printed using standard HTML printing and CSS. The problem with that would be that paging and

Re: The ultimate logo

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
The logo has been contributed in via Jira [1]. I think you can freely create a wallpaper. However: I guess it would be nice if you would let the mailinglist know if you made something cool. yours Martin. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-11 On 11/02/2012 11:54, Carlos Zaragoza wr

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Rui Silva
Original Message > From: "Michael A. Labriola" > > Not sure how the logistics of this would work, however, if we wanted to bring FlexUnit into the fold, I would be willing to donate all of the code to Apache directly. Right now it is MIT license. > That sounds great Mike.

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 08:10, David Francis Buhler wrote: http://wonderfl.net/ does it. wonderfl.net is awesome but does not harmonize with the Apache process. Imagine we create tons of docs and Kayac decides to just shut down the server. Or if we introduce a new library and its not being included into

RE: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>>That's too bad because we are running into issues with file system path >>length limitations on Windows in our local Perforce workspace, even with our >>root in C:\.perforce. Yes, it sure is. Notice: This transmission is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is add

[RT] Awesome FlexNext End-User Experience

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Just because it seemed to created some misunderstanding. The post was intended to focus on the _design_ aspect of end-user-experiences. The stuff that we do with Flex. yours Martin. On 11/02/2012 01:00, Martin Heidegger wrote: Dear List, it can be hard to find a vision for the next version

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 07:00, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: Regarding asdocs, will we be able to reliably point users to the Flash Player AS3 documentation from our imported Flex doc site? Of course not. The Flash Player as well as the AS3 Language are not planned to be submitted to Apache. However: I, pers

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
http://wonderfl.net/ On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > >  Adobe had one of those sites; but it's no longer up.  Maybe it was > tryflex.com ?  I think that was in the Flex 2 days.  I always assumed it got > no traction. > > --

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
http://wonderfl.net/ does it. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: >> An interactive tutorial > Would it be a lot of work for us to set up a server that could compile Flex > code and return a compiled swf for a beginner to see as they follow a lesson > plan and learn to prog

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Alain Ekambi
@Martin Unfortunately the code of that application wont help much i think. Simply because the application was not written in AS3/MXML but in Java using GWT. I was talking more about the structure of the app which was inspired from the Ext-GWT explorer. 2012/2/10 Martin Heidegger > On 11/02/2012

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience

2012-02-10 Thread Om
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > On 2/10/2012 5:04 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: > >> An interactive tutorial >>> >> Would it be a lot of work for us to set up a server that could compile >> Flex code and return a compiled swf for a beginner to see as they follow a >> lesson

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience

2012-02-10 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 2/10/2012 5:04 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: An interactive tutorial Would it be a lot of work for us to set up a server that could compile Flex code and return a compiled swf for a beginner to see as they follow a lesson plan and learn to program Flex? Adobe had one of those sites; but

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
That's too bad because we are running into issues with file system path length limitations on Windows in our local Perforce workspace, even with our root in C:\.perforce.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 _

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> An interactive tutorial Would it be a lot of work for us to set up a server that could compile Flex code and return a compiled swf for a beginner to see as they follow a lesson plan and learn to program Flex?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Ce

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> a showcase of applications this could be done as a fun community space of custom layouts, components, visualizations, skins, etc.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Greg Lafrance To: fl

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Regarding asdocs, will we be able to reliably point users to the Flash Player AS3 documentation from our imported Flex doc site?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Martin Heidegger To: fl

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> offered too many Flex examples never > Future hiding of the examples until the user clicked a button made 'seeing'  > the examples more involved. is 'involved' good or bad, i can't tell from the context? > The Help Docs were longer than necessary. i like long help docs, means there is a good ch

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 01:55, Alain Ekambi wrote: We have create something similar to the EXT-GWT explorer for our product Gwt4Flex. ( http://www.gwt4air.appspot.com/ ) Something in that direction would definitly be usefull. It would be awesome if you could publish the code under a APL compatible licens

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>I'd much prefer if this discussion can happen here so that others can learn >how such a donation would work. > >However, feel free to ping me and/or other mentors directly or via the >flex-private list if some parts of this discussion need to be private. Works for me. The project is MIT license

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 02:56, David Francis Buhler wrote: I'm curious how Open-Source projects handle the localization of documentation. - Every system does it differently, this can be handled in a lot of ways. I structure it for me like that: - If documentation is deployed with the release of a projec

RE: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
> Having said that, running Flexmojos 4 with FlexUnit and coverage is pretty > painless on Redhat. >I have had pretty many problems running AIR tests (for air specific code) on >linux. Also remember that, so far as I know, Adobe AIR for linux is not under development so we won't be able to run

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Michael A. Labriola wrote: >>>As it's a sizable chunk of code (I assume), note that this requires a code >>>grant from whoever owns that code, see >>>http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt - nothing complicated but >>>provenance and >>donation must be

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 03:41, Michael A. Labriola wrote: I am the original author of most of it. Mind if I ping you off list to learn more? It seems like this process will be similar for other projects / products. I for my part wouldn't mind keeping the discussion on the list. yours Martin.

RE: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>>I'm curious how Open-Source projects handle the localization of documentation. Before Adobe started the process of donating Flex to Apache, Spoon was working with them to open the localization of the framework and eventually docs to the community. We can see if Adobe is willing to donate any o

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>What makes it less exciting to me is that it references to hamcrest-as3. >I am not sure how essential it is to FlexUnit but it would need to be >referenced. It can be built without referencing hamcrest. They share an interface that needs to be kept in sync in that case, but that is the only dow

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>>As it's a sizable chunk of code (I assume), note that this requires a code >>grant from whoever owns that code, see >>http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt - nothing complicated but >>provenance and >>donation must be documented. Bertrand, I am the original author of most of it.

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
Martin, My apologies for thread-hijacking. I'm curious how Open-Source projects handle the localization of documentation. My understanding is that Adobe intends to donate the Tour de Flex application, per another thread. With all due-respect to the efforts of those involved with developing Tour

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Alain Ekambi
Looks like my post did not get through 2012/2/10 Alain Ekambi > We have create something similar to the EXT-GWT explorer for our product > Gwt4Flex. ( http://www.gwt4air.appspot.com/ ) > > Something in that direction would definitly be usefull. > > > > 2012/2/10 Martin Heidegger > >> Hello

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread JP Bader
Agreed. One of the things we need to also demonstrate is the ease of development concept, something that David pointed out with Sencha, Go and even tryruby.org. An interactive tutorial would be great for getting Apache Flex out to the masses for ease of use, and examples should be focused on curr

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 01:56, Haykel BEN JEMIA wrote: Nice proposal Mike. Regarding 'Fully portable', is that not just a matter of skinning or are you thinking about more? Haykel The word "Skin" has certain restrictions in the current Flex model which is why I tried to avoid it. I am talking about rule

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Greg Lafrance
I'd also like to see a showcase of applications developed that not only inspire developers as to what's possible, but provide useful code either for developers creating proof or concepts for internal approval or as starting code for actual projects. This would not be a tour de flex, but rather a n

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 01:56, Skogen, Espen wrote: Having said that, running Flexmojos 4 with FlexUnit and coverage is pretty painless on Redhat. I have had pretty many problems running AIR tests (for air specific code) on linux. yours Martin.

RE: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Skogen, Espen
Having said that, running Flexmojos 4 with FlexUnit and coverage is pretty painless on Redhat. Definitely we worth looking at. Espen Skogen | Vice President | IB Tech Market | Investment Bank | J.P. Morgan | 125 London Wall, EC2Y 5AJ, London, United Kingdom | T: +442077420836 | espen.sko...@

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Haykel BEN JEMIA
Nice proposal Mike. Regarding 'Fully portable', is that not just a matter of skinning or are you thinking about more? Haykel On 10 February 2012 17:00, Martin Heidegger wrote: > Dear List, > > it can be hard to find a vision for the next version of Flex. Developers > like us like discussions

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Alain Ekambi
We have create something similar to the EXT-GWT explorer for our product Gwt4Flex. ( http://www.gwt4air.appspot.com/ ) Something in that direction would definitly be usefull. 2012/2/10 Martin Heidegger > Hello Francis > > I think you are talking more about developer experience than end-user >

[RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Francis I think you are talking more about developer experience than end-user experience. The wiki seems a good start for documentation to me but I agree that it has some serious drawbacks. For example: we can not easily include swf's and AS3 code formatting is sub-par. But i think if

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
I'd like to see the examples and documentation be part of an improved, cohesive 'brand' outlined. The rest of the outline I agree with. Someone else had suggested the idea of emulating the examples/documentation Sencha/JQuery use, which I second. Likewise, Google does an excellent job with http:/

RE: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread FRANKLIN GARZON
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:00:16 +0900 > From: m...@leichtgewicht.at > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the > Whiteboard code) > > Dear List, > > it can be hard to find a vision for the next version of Flex. Developers >

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread ganaraj p r
I am completely up for this. I vote for doing something along this line... On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > Dear List, > > it can be hard to find a vision for the next version of Flex. Developers > like us like discussions about technical details and they are boring. > >

[RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
Dear List, it can be hard to find a vision for the next version of Flex. Developers like us like discussions about technical details and they are boring. I think that is not enough! I think we need something that inspires us to create something new - something that makes us believe that the

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
The BSD license is similar to the APL - Category A http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a so I don't see a problem. yours Martin. On 11/02/2012 00:52, David Francis Buhler wrote: Do the FlexPMD and FlexCPD licenses allow us to use the aforementioned projects in an Apache Project

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
Do the FlexPMD and FlexCPD licenses allow us to use the aforementioned projects in an Apache Project (as part of a CI Environment)? http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/License On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > On 11/02/2012 00:32, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 00:32, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Info about build services for Apache projects is at http://ci.apache.org/ Awesome! There are two systems that actually have Windows and MacOS servers at their hands to choose from: http://ci.apache.org/buildbot.html https://builds.apache.or

Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > On 11/02/2012 00:04, David Francis Buhler wrote: >> Is there any interest in adopting a Continuous Integration environment >> which kick off the Unit Tests, perhaps using Hudson? >> > ...Apache has a continuous integration server project c

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread JP Bader
Maven (and Flex Mojos)? It can be a PITA to setup/maintain, but can run Flex unit tests in a headless environment (i.e. no FP/AIR runtime installation needed, i don't believe). I've been on projects that run Maven in conjunction with CI ant scripts (Lunt, Hudson/Jenkins, et al). As a side note,

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 11/02/2012 00:04, David Francis Buhler wrote: Is there any interest in adopting a Continuous Integration environment which kick off the Unit Tests, perhaps using Hudson? Note: I am unaware of the license restrictions for Hudson. Apache has a continuous integration server project called Contin

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread David Francis Buhler
Is there any interest in adopting a Continuous Integration environment which kick off the Unit Tests, perhaps using Hudson? Note: I am unaware of the license restrictions for Hudson. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Martin Heidegger

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > FlexUnit itself is a very generous offer which I think the PPMC should take. > Perhaps Michael can make a submission request?... As it's a sizable chunk of code (I assume), note that this requires a code grant from whoever owns that code,

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Heidegger
FlexUnit itself is a very generous offer which I think the PPMC should take. Perhaps Michael can make a submission request? What makes it less exciting to me is that it references to hamcrest-as3. I am not sure how essential it is to FlexUnit but it would need to be referenced. And the quest

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Skogen, Espen
Michael's generous offer sounds like a no-brainer to me. If FlexUnit merges in with Apache Flex, we have the original author on the PPMC, and it is supported in both IntelliJ and Flash Builder, I see absolutely no reason to consider supporting another unit testing framework for the Apache Flex p

RE: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Skogen, Espen
I agree. This is going to affect both build config and code consistency. Our test suites should be as consistent and clean as the production code. In fact, I'd argue the unit test framework and syntax style should be part of our code standards. (e.g. standard asserts vs hamcrest etc) E:) Espe

Re: Starting with the Whiteboard Code

2012-02-10 Thread Tomasz Maciąg | Fuse Collective
W dniu 2012-02-09 19:52, Martin Heidegger pisze: 1) A framework that produces awesome(in other words new!) experiences: Great design, super interactivity. Its enough if they are published like minimalcomps: without CSS or anything. Just so people see Apache Flex is coll and they want that o

Re: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?

2012-02-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > ...Are the > unit tests part of the things that Apache Flex offers as download to the > user?... Apache projects release source code, and unit tests are usually released with that. > > ...That means that the contribution of FlexUnit