Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-28 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > True enough, and if enough people feel strongly about this, we can just > add > > a new method instead of replacing the existing one (not sure what to > call it > > though). Personally, when using the validateAll method, I usually

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > ComponentSmoke is obsolete. Sure when Mustella gets donated. > MXUnit will probably not get donated. We can probably use FlexUnit in it place I think. (Not that I've tried.) > Mustella is supposed to replace it. Please do not proliferate any tests > using MXUnit. Currently we don't have

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 7:59 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > > Note that on a Mac not all of the component smoke tests pass (I think that > been brought up before on the list), but most of them do and that a good start > :-) Be great if some one could run this on windows and see what they get. ComponentSmok

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, I took a different approach and was able to run component smoke tests. It's actually not even that hard and no command line involved. The following steps assume you're using Flash Builder. 1. Download the open source SDK. 2. Create a new Flex project in the frameworks test directory. 3. E

Re: Google+ Page / Study and get-to-know sessions

2012-03-28 Thread Cortlandt Winters
I think it's a great idea. I will try to get up early enough to participate. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: > I'd be happy to donate the use of my Connect server should we need any > larger sessions. I'll watch this thread if there is any traction for the > need. >

Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Left Right
Aha... so, as far as I could understand, CFF is different from TTF in that it uses cubic curves for outlines instead of quadratic. Is there anything else that is different? Would this also mean that fonts, originally in OTF (CFF) format can be compiled right away w/o needing to do some [more] compl

Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 29/03/2012 02:20, Alex Harui wrote: I'm still trying to make sure I understand both the technical and legal issues. I see specs for CFF and DefineFont4, but there are rumors that the conversion is currently done via proprietary algorithms. If we (Apache Flex) just write our own, there may be

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
There are probably some mxunit based tests in the tests folder, but for basictests, which uses mustella, it should not need it. On 3/28/12 2:52 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > Hi, > >> Flexunit and mxunit should not be required for mustella tests. > > The component smoke tests have this: > impor

Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 11:00 AM, "Om" wrote: >> I hope the solution we come up with will work for Falcon as well. >> >> > We == Adobe? > We == Apache Flex -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread filippo dipisa
I had many problems using the filereference in terms of perfomance. For my experience the best approach is to read the file, splitting it in chunks of 100kb (buffersize), send the chunks to the server. In this case Air will perform a file stream like, to the server. Using the FileReference it load

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Flexunit and mxunit should not be required for mustella tests. The component smoke tests have this: import qa.mxunit.*; I'm assuming it just an old version of fluxunit with a different package name? It's likely that the to be donated Mustella tests don't have this issue. > Are you getti

Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > True enough, and if enough people feel strongly about this, we can just add > a new method instead of replacing the existing one (not sure what to call it > though). Personally, when using the validateAll method, I usually check the > length of the return, but don't use many other Array pro

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Clint Modien
You could use psftp for sftp on windows. Download - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Help Page - http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.62/htmldoc/Chapter6.html#psftp MIT License - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html You can distribute it w

New committers guide

2012-03-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
...my timeline mentions this but I'm not sure if we did it, so: if you're a Flex committer and haven't read http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html yet, now's the time! -Bertrand

Flex timeline page added to the website, feedback welcome

2012-03-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, I've created http://incubator.apache.org/flex/timeline.html to document Flex's incubation "adventure", feedback is welcome and/or feel free to fix - I probably missed a few things. The idea is to focus on things that are relevant to the incubation process, and not too specific to Flex so that

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Avinash Narayanan
sorry!!! typo. "Still no luck with HTTP" should've been "Still no luck with SFTP" Thanks Avinash Y On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Avinash Narayanan wrote: > Hi All, > > Looks like my little problem started quite the discussion!!. > > Ok, need to give a few updates. I managed to upload 1.07 G

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Avinash Narayanan
Hi All, Looks like my little problem started quite the discussion!!. Ok, need to give a few updates. I managed to upload 1.07 Gb file (windows image file actually) via fileReference using HTTP. Still no luck with HTTP. And the data upload is NOT causing any increase in the usage of RAM! (very str

RE: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Jarosław Szczepankiewicz
Supporting rest without tunneling through post is not possible due to limitations in flash player and due to plugin api limitations. Also full rest answers using full http response codes are not possible due to the same limitations of browser plugin api :( 28-03-2012 22:46 użytkownik "Hugo Matinho"

RE: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Hugo Matinho
I know this might be the wrong place to ask and there is of course the limitation on how the FP handles the HTTP transport but couldn't we do something about flex supporting REST natively it's been several years already and yes there's blazeDS and GraniteDS and others but most JavaScript libraries

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> I might be off, but I don't think an ANE is, or would be, part of Flex.  It >is an extension for AIR. Flex has components intended only for AIR (such as FileSystemList), and offering a component that exists as an ANE/AS combo that can be added to a project to upload large files does not seem

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread filippo dipisa
in Air you have the FileStream APi that allows you to stream the file to the server. Basically you have to split the file in different chunks and then send to the server. here some code example ( I wrote on the fly and didn't test, it is just to make you understand ) var fileStream:FileStream = n

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread eRoom-D
First post here, but since I just wrote a file upload section for an enterprise application I thought I might be able to shed a little more light on the issue. Flash player can upload more than 100Mb at a time, though as was mentioned earlier only 100Mb is officially supported. The other issue, t

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread JP Bader
I might be off, but I don't think an ANE is, or would be, part of Flex. It is an extension for AIR, which is still controlled by Adobe. If we want to see about spawning new threads that could consume a massive dump of data files, process, and pass those into a service (FTP/SFTP/REST/Telnet/etc),

Re: Google+ Page / Study and get-to-know sessions

2012-03-28 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
I'd be happy to donate the use of my Connect server should we need any larger sessions. I'll watch this thread if there is any traction for the need. -Nick On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > Hi Yennick, > > i am not _that_ big into enterprise but sure: we can hold sessio

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
would we consider developing ANEs to incorporate into Flex?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Marcus Fritze To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Marcus Fritze Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2

RE: Testing MXMLC (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>I'm not well-versed on exactly how the compiler folks were doing there >testing, but in a tests folder we could not donate, it appeared that there >were several small source files, but it appeared that they all came >from >Tamarin, so we cannot take them at Apache. Ah, I bet I know what they w

Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 10:41 AM, "Om" wrote: > Does Falcon come with support for CFF Fonts? > When it is open-sourced, will > it be gimped in the same way when it comes to fonts? I hope the solution we come up with will work for Falcon as well. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blo

Re: CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Om
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > On 3/28/12 5:31 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > > > Yes Martin, I understood the legal problem. I was just wondering what is > > particular about the code that it cannot be replaced by other (modified) > > font managers. As you probabl

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread sébastien Paturel
+1 Le 28/03/2012 19:34, Marcus Fritze a écrit : Hi, as maybe all know Flash supports only a file size of 100MB. from the docs: FileReference -> upload() Although Flash Player has no restriction on the size of files you can upload or download, the player officially supports uploads or down

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Marcus Fritze
Hi, as maybe all know Flash supports only a file size of 100MB. from the docs: FileReference -> upload() > Although Flash Player has no restriction on the size of files you can upload > or download, the player officially supports uploads or downloads of up to 100 > MB. I experienced that an

Testing MXMLC (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 1:41 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > On 28/03/2012 15:39, Alex Harui wrote: >> I'm not quite sure what you meant by test data, but I don't think we >> have anything to offer at this time. > Its a compiler > > mangle them > > I'd assume that a test case, for the I/O exists but ju

CFF Font Embedding (was Re: Here Comes MXMLC!)

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 5:31 AM, "olegsivo...@gmail.com" wrote: > Yes Martin, I understood the legal problem. I was just wondering what is > particular about the code that it cannot be replaced by other (modified) > font managers. As you probably know, there are 4 managers currently in SDK > which can encode

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 12:59 AM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > 3. Download qa-framworks.zip form here: > http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/blazeds/trunk/qa/resources/framewor > ks/ > Unzip and copy flexunit.swc and mxunit.swc to the mustella directory. Flexunit and mxunit should not be required for mu

[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (FLEX-33) Touch Scrolling is not possible if more then one finger is on Screen / TouchScrollHelper

2012-03-28 Thread Issue Comment Edited
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13240466#comment-13240466 ] Pavel fljōt Pevnitskiy edited comment on FLEX-33 at 3/28/12 3:17 PM: --

[jira] [Commented] (FLEX-33) Touch Scrolling is not possible if more then one finger is on Screen / TouchScrollHelper

2012-03-28 Thread Commented
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13240466#comment-13240466 ] Pavel fljōt Pevnitskiy commented on FLEX-33: Just a "imho" note: yes, TouchEvent

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Avinash Narayanan
Hi JP, Thanks for taking time to reply! Stackoverflow had questions like this but not satisfactory answers. This was my last ditch effort since the other option is to write my own SFTP plug (which clients wont pay me to do :|). As for the apps, this upload needs to be 'part' of a desktop applicat

RE: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>Might be able to get these from elsewhere? Are these related to flexunit in >any way does anyone know? >>I will check. Guessing they are the .9 versions So, the answer is yes. It seems like this is a specially built version of FlexUnit .9. I say 'specially built' as it doesn't match the signatu

RE: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Michael A. Labriola
Might be able to get these from elsewhere? Are these related to flexunit in any way does anyone know? >I will check. Guessing they are the .9 versions

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread JP Bader
Hey Mark, One (actually two) slight correction(s): '(the only source of revenue from flex for Adobe)' 1) Adobe made money off of consulting 2) Some of us made money off of how bad Adobe consulting was when we had to go in and fix it. Regardless, Adobe has made it clear what they are focusing in

RE: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
Sorry, you're correct...Flex specifically and the Flash Platform as a whole, were hemorrhaging money...with no end in sight. -Original Message- From: Peter Elst [mailto:peter.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:10 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Flash Pla

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Peter Elst
> They did it in a stupid, shoot yourself in the foot (and our feet too) way, > but they really had little choice. They were hemorrhaging money. I can't help comment on that - the same November press release that announced restructuring and 750 people laid off celebrated their "record revenue q

RE: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
I currently (and probably for the next few weeks), do all my Flex development for free...because I am still learning. It is not something I plan or can do for long...but that's ok, because I can imagine a time in the very near future when I will be making money from Flex. As much as I enjoy Flex,

re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Tapper
There's a couple of very minor issues I see: 1. Method now take an array and returns a vector seems a little inconsistent I was debating changing the argument to a vector as well, but haven't yet for two reasons: a) several developers I know will wrap their validator mxml in an fx:

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread JP Bader
Hi Avinash, My quick take on this is why you would want to recreate a tool for this? Aren't there plenty of free SFTP apps already? Why not take advantage of one of them? Tortoise, Cute, WinSCP, FileZilla, etc. Also, questions like these might be better asked on other forums like stack overflow

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hi Giorgio, I honestly don't really care about it. As a web developer I am not getting Flash projects anyways due to last years marketing and because agencies like buzz words. As a app developer I do not care of this particular feature as I will not be affected (rarely a app really needs the f

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Igor Costa
Adobe still doesn't know how to make money with Flash Player and still struggles to fail attempts, like this one. Maybe this sound gross for some sensitive people. But this is true. And this isn't something really new, they wrote that in road map http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepape

Re: Here Comes MXMLC!

2012-03-28 Thread Left Right
Yes Martin, I understood the legal problem. I was just wondering what is particular about the code that it cannot be replaced by other (modified) font managers. As you probably know, there are 4 managers currently in SDK which can encode fonts using somewhat different techniques, but only one can e

Re: Here Comes MXMLC!

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Oleg, the main difficulty is that its not Open Source. We can not deploy it, having no "font tool" out of the box well ... sucks. Aside from that. I checked swfmill, its haXe pendant and a few other open source projects but they all just support DefineFont3 (not cff). As far as I can te

Re: Here Comes MXMLC!

2012-03-28 Thread Left Right
Hello, more out of curiosity: what is the main difficulty behind using FontSwf? Is it the generation of the proper SWF tag or is it the generation of the outlines or the kinds of fonts it supports, or is it the parsing the source font files? I'm asking this because there is another OSS code that m

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-28 Thread Raju Bitter
I've already handed the account over to the PPMC. As you can see, they already put up the new Apache Flex logo. http://twitter.com/#!/apacheflex - Raju

Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Giorgio Natili
Hi All, I know that Flex is not related to the gaming but I would love to know which is the feeling of the mailing list about this news http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-features.html. In my opinion it will be used again against the Flash platform, what do you think? Giorg

Re: Here Comes MXMLC!

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 28/03/2012 15:39, Alex Harui wrote: I'm not quite sure what you meant by test data, but I don't think we have anything to offer at this time. Its a compiler mangle them I'd assume that a test case, for the I/O exists but judging from your answer I guess they were made at a different lev

SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Avinash Narayanan
Hi All, I know this community is meant for future development of Apache Flex but I'm a little lost here. I need to upload ~2Gb file from my local machine to a url via an air app using sftp. problem is we don't have sftp lib available. Also, I'm confused as to why in forums it says the flash playe

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Results of a little experiment with the OS version of Mustella. 1. Obtain the full open source Adobe Flex SDKs You can check out from here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk 2. Copy the frameworks/test directory and mustella directories into your local Apache Flex S

Re: [BUG][ISSUE] Regards Type Casting

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Manish, -- Casting: ActionScript does not differ between a Integer or int. However: casting is possible by using a class as a function: var foo: Bar = Bar( anything ); or with the "as" keyword var foo: Bar = anything as Bar; The difference between the two statements is that Bar(an

Re: Here Comes MXMLC!

2012-03-28 Thread Petr Svoboda
woohoo :) great & thanks for ur work! On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > Today we finally got the last blocking legal issue resolved and are now > hunting down executives to sign the appropriate documents to submit the > source code for MXMLC to Apache. The final signature has