Re: OFT - Flash player updates

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, For Adobe plans for the next several versions of the Flash Player (3 point releases and Flash Player "next") read this: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Apache Flex should be able to use the new versions of the Flash Player. The build scripts in the patches

Re: OFT - Flash player updates

2012-03-21 Thread Robert Smith
William, It sounds like there's some confusion regarding what Adobe is and is not doing. It's my understanding that Adobe is only halting development on the flash player for mobile phones. Adobe will continue to develop flash player for the desktop due to the new focus on games and video. They

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > It speaks about using Sun JDK, it's not the only JDK that exists, there's > also Open > JDK and IBM JDK. May be someone who's tried. Only real way to be sure would be to try it out and see if it works and swc's are the same. Thanks, Justin

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
> > There's some minimum requirements mentioned in the README.txt of the > framework directory they are probably good enough for now. > Yup, I was just trying to be peculiar about the requirements. It speaks about using Sun JDK, it's not the only JDK that exists, there's also Open JDK and IBM JDK.

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I would be very surprised if they don't match since they are coming out of > the same zip file. Likewise. Adding the text layout back into the build script I get errors like this: [asdoc] /Users/justinmclean/Documents/Adobe Flash Builder 4.6/Apache Flex/frameworks/projects/textLayout

Re: Datatips not functioning correctly in list and grids

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > For s:DataGrid that isn't how it works. Yes it does work differently to the mx components, sorry I had incorrectly assumed it would do the same thing. > Look at the doc for dataTipField and dataTipFunction. I think you would need > to use a dataTipFunction and > decide when to show the

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Carol Frampton
On 3/21/12 5 :53PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> Actually you do have the textLayout source since the build_framework.xml >> downloads it into frameworks/projects/textLayout/src. >Possibly the source code and swc don't match as I was getting ASDoc >compile errors. I would be very surpris

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Carol Frampton
On 3/21/12 2 :51PM, "David Francis Buhler" wrote: >Hi Carol, > >I'm confused by whom 'we' refers to in the statement below. Sorry. 'We' in that context meant the Flex Team not the TLF Team. Carol > >Thanks, >David > >On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Carol Frampton >wrote: >> We shipped th

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Depends: - I'm not really sure of what are the actual requirements (I had > problems using SDK before with openJDK, but I'm not sure - maybe it should > work? Can I specify just any JRE as a dependency? What precise version? (I > think it used to work with Java 1.5 before). Has anyone tried

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Actually you do have the textLayout source since the build_framework.xml > downloads it into frameworks/projects/textLayout/src. Possibly the source code and swc don't match as I was getting ASDoc compile errors. Thanks, Justin

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread David Francis Buhler
Hi Carol, I'm confused by whom 'we' refers to in the statement below. Thanks, David On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Carol Frampton wrote: > We shipped the textLayout.swc > that the TLF team built, not one we built. > > Carol > > On 3/21/12 9 :27AM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>The asd

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/21/12 11:24 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > I'm with Spolsky on this one: I.e. I think it's too tedious to re-read the > entire conversation preceding this message in every message, but I didn't > know there are such rules. I'm sorry if I violated them. You are a smart enough guy to

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
I'm with Spolsky on this one: I.e. I think it's too tedious to re-read the entire conversation preceding this message in every message, but I didn't know there are such rules. I'm sorry if I violated them. AIR on Linux is no longer supported, but it has never existed for amd64 architecture. The on

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
Oleg, you have a reputation for writing verbosely and writing often. Please respect the Apache protocol of leaving snippets of what you are replying to. On 3/21/12 10:15 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > I didn't like it - that's true, besides, I can't even use it, since there's > no AIR fo

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/21/12 10:10 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > Ouch... well, makes sense, but then how? Would I need to wget them from > Apache repository? I've really no idea - so that's one reason I've asked... > Or would I need to do something like Oracle does to Java install with > prompts and conf

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Ouch... well, makes sense, but then how? Would I need to wget them from Apache repository? I've really no idea - so that's one reason I've asked... Or would I need to do something like Oracle does to Java install with prompts and confirmations etc? Best. Oleg

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
I didn't like it - that's true, besides, I can't even use it, since there's no AIR for Linux, so, even if it got improved, I won't probably discover that... :) However, it depends on the help materials to be generated in a certain way, so that's a dependency. Imagine, once we have Flex documentatio

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/21/12 1:09 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > When I was talking about an "AIR help application" I meant this: > http://www.adobe.com/support/chc/ (CHC). I didn't mean it may be donated > because it is more of the Creative Suite thing then anything specific to > Flex. > That is not on

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Carol Frampton
Beware that you are not going to be able to produce a standalone binary package because we can not distribute binaries/swcs for any code that we don't have the sources for or have the right to distribute and I'm not even sure about this last part. Off the top of my head this includes the playerglo

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Ah, and here's the control file: (this is the package description) Package: apache-flex Version: 4.6 Section: devel Priority: optional Architecture: any Depends: sun-java6-jre Suggests: flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java6-jdk Installed-Size: 998755 Maintainer: Oleg Sivokon Description: The software de

Re: Datatips not functioning correctly in list and grids

2012-03-21 Thread Carol Frampton
Justin, For s:DataGrid that isn't how it works. Look at the doc for dataTipField and dataTipFunction. I think you would need to use a dataTipFunction and decide when to show the tip yourself. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/co mponents/DataGrid.html#data

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
OK, I went forward, and I've couple of questions now: - SDK command line utilities usually rely on $FLEX_HOME being set (or set it themselves). I would imagine that the common use case is not to set $FLEX_HOME and let the utilities figure it out on their own. They would normally default to the pare

Re: Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Carol Frampton
Actually you do have the textLayout source since the build_framework.xml downloads it into frameworks/projects/textLayout/src. See textLayout-download target. At Adobe we had the TLF source checked into our repository mostly to make it easier for me/us to debug TLF issues. We shipped the textLay

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > No-no, you misunderstood me re' MXML language reference. This is what I > meant: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/MXML+2009. I'm sure we can ask for this to be donated and then update/modify as required. Adobe have stated support Flex for a minimum of 5 years so these pages

Generating full HTML docs via asdocs

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, The asdic hasn't been donated yet and the open source SDK assumes it has the osmf source and text layout source which we currently don't have. So if you want to build the documentation you need to do this to the build.xml in the asdocs directory 1. Comment out the following lines like so:

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Well, the docs are not distributed as binaries, you need to compile them And currently neither are the framework swcs you have to compile them yourself as well. I'm sure first off people will host them somewhere and in the future Apache will host them. As I said it's early days and the inf

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Well, the docs are not distributed as binaries, you need to compile them (not every one who can read the documentation necessarily knows how to compile it). You may only want to install (download) documentation, w/o the entire SDK to things like kindle for example etc. There are also other documen

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Well, making a deb or rpm package isn't much work, but hosting it requires an online resource and such... I don't even really know what does it take to get a package registered with established Linux distros, as I've never done it before :) but I think I could make and test a deb package... Best.

Re: SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Hi, just asking, has it been considered, and if it was, what were the > decisions? Is Flex going to be / will try to be distributed as an > installable Linux package? It's not been discussed as far as I know. Also I don't think any decision needs to be made if someone want to go ahead and d

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Finally, no help is distributed with SDK today. I mean, of course there is > documentation in the source code and it is available as code hinting by > using "fat swcs", but there's no separate body of documentation (although, > there is ASDocs target in the framework builds). The ASdoc direc

Re: [OT] 360 Flex Denver 2012 - Apache Flex Discovery Room

2012-03-21 Thread Igor Costa
Alex Zazzle is great, I'm in Brazil and I already used their services, and I get properly working. Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 3/20/12 4:56 PM, "Om" wrote: > > > There are quite a

Re: [DISCUSS] 360 Flex Denver 2012 - Nominate the Apache Flex MVP!

2012-03-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Guthmann, Scott wrote: > someone wrote: >>... 2) Tell us why you, or someone you know, is your MVP selection (most >>deserving) of >> these passes based on their contributions to the Apache Flex project. >> The ~85 most recent Apache Flex commenters will then vot

Re: Haxe and Flex

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Hi, sorry for the late response. I found the class I was thinking about, it's spark.core.SpriteVisualElement. It's not as small as I hoped, but it's way much smaller then UIComponent, and it's possible to use it as a base class for Flex components, so, it may be a good target for a PoC. It has an a

SDK as an RPM?

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
Hi, just asking, has it been considered, and if it was, what were the decisions? Is Flex going to be / will try to be distributed as an installable Linux package? For non-Linux people: Linux applications (and not only applications, basically, every thing that can be found on your system) can be "in

Re: Language Reference Online Materials

2012-03-21 Thread Left Right
When I was talking about an "AIR help application" I meant this: http://www.adobe.com/support/chc/ (CHC). I didn't mean it may be donated because it is more of the Creative Suite thing then anything specific to Flex. I was asking these questions rather because: Flex help is used by other applicati