Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-29 Thread Kiel
Hi Martin, This would be my First turning point. Seems to be a difficult question... But I need to ask what could be the differences between the two? Regardless of my decision am I correct in saying that, `ActionScript` is a fundamental requirement for me to progress. - Kiel On 3/30/2012

Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hello Kiel, what sort of thing do you want to develop? Do you want to develop applications with Flex? Do you want to develop (for) the Flex framework? :) Starting from Zero I would suggest the ActionScript development center [1] specifically [2] to learn the programming language. And the Fl

[RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-29 Thread Kiel
Greetings all, I'm new to the Apache Flex community and I'm very much interested in Flex as it goes. Hope everyone would be patient enough with me :D. Since everything is new I would like to gather/learn as much information as I can. Though I have read articles regarding Flex, I wanted to sta

Re: Flash Player 11.2

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Harui
I asked and was told it is the right one. They are considering renaming and reposting. -Alex On 3/29/12 5:34 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > Hi, > > Just noticed that flash player 11.2 playerglobal been released here: > http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html > > But it points

Re: Flash Player 11.2

2012-03-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Apparently, this guy uploaded a playerglobal for 11.2 back in > November. Is this even possible? There were beta and release candidates of the player global publicly available for 11.2. Here's 2 "official" links: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-

Re: Flash Player 11.2

2012-03-29 Thread David Francis Buhler
Apparently, this guy uploaded a playerglobal for 11.2 back in November. Is this even possible? [1} http://code.google.com/p/cortizone/source/browse/maven-repositories/com/adobe/flex/framework/playerglobal/4.5.1.21328/?r=facdd30ef42ef2fc866d4cece1ce3cd75d8ecbcb On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Ju

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

2012-03-29 Thread Dave Fisher
On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Left Right wrote: > 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 b

Flash Player 11.2

2012-03-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Just noticed that flash player 11.2 playerglobal been released here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html But it points to the 11.0 version of the file: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/11/playerglobal11_0.swc Can anyone confirm that this is correc

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > It will just mean you haven't broken something obvious. Which is still better than not knowing you have broken something obvious. :-) > For example, a ComboBox tests just proves you can pick the second thing on > the dropdown. It > doesn't check all the other ways to interact with a Comb

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/29/12 3:37 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > >> Also note: the tests only cover a small fraction of the code in the >> framework. BasicTests is just a quick sanity check of the top feature of >> every component. > A sanity check is far better than no tests at all. Means it is possible to try

[jira] [Commented] (FLEX-34) DropdownList items dupplication => virtualLayout

2012-03-29 Thread Pierangelo Mancusi (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13241882#comment-13241882 ] Pierangelo Mancusi commented on FLEX-34: could you post sample code?

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I just don't think we should have a dependency on something undocumented and > unsupported. Which I wasn't suggesting. It can probably be changed to flex unit anyway. > If you want to take a stab at writing tests with Mustella, especially for > new components I'd be happy to do so but do

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/29/12 2:10 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > Take look at framework/tests (in the Open Source SDK not BlazeDS) it contains > tests for spark and mx components, mobile skins, performance, layout, graphic > primitives and a little more. A search on " >> Wait for mustella before making signific

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I think you may be confused. The Adobe Flex Open Source SDK does not > contain this code. Take look at framework/tests (in the Open Source SDK not BlazeDS) it contains tests for spark and mx components, mobile skins, performance, layout, graphic primitives and a little more. A search on

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

2012-03-29 Thread JP Bader
Mazel Tov! And thanks Scott for doing that for the community! Cheers, On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Guthmann, Scott 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.

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

2012-03-29 Thread Guthmann, Scott
>>... 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 vote on your >>nominations and decide who the passes will go to Question:

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Arthur
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > I didn't have the account up till today. Will start tweeting :) > > yours > Martin. I'm planning a tweet, just gathering info for it first. - Doug

Re: [jira] [Created] (FLEX-34) DropdownList items dupplication => virtualLayout

2012-03-29 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Julien BUSSI (Created) (JIRA) < j...@apache.org> wrote: > DropdownList items dupplication => virtualLayout > > > Key: FLEX-34 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34 >

Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David Francis Buhler wrote: > Maybe " Validator.getValidationResults". > > When I think of "Validation", I always think of validateNow(), > invalidateDisplayList(,), invalidateProperties, etc. I always think of the > term as a grouping of the invalidation routines

Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread David Francis Buhler
Maybe " Validator.getValidationResults". When I think of "Validation", I always think of validateNow(), invalidateDisplayList(,), invalidateProperties, etc. I always think of the term as a grouping of the invalidation routines. I'm just throwing the idea out there (because it has always bothered

Re: Flex timeline page added to the website, feedback welcome

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/29/12 7:03 AM, "Carol Frampton" wrote: > > 1. Apache projects only release SOURCE. Binary packages are for > convenience and are not approved by Apache. > You are not suppose to have dependent jars, and for us, swcs, checked > into svn, even if they have appropriate licenses. I do

RE: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread Jeff Tapper
Perhaps something like Validator.validateValidatorArray(array:Array):Vector. -Original Message- From: David Francis Buhler [mailto:davidbuh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:35 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: minor Validator improvment I would love it if w

Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread David Francis Buhler
I would love it if we could deprecate "validateAll()" and replace it with a an operation name that suggests the method returns a list. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jeff Tapper wrote: > There's a couple  of very minor issues I see: > > 1.      Method now take an array and returns a vector seem

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Heidegger
I didn't have the account up till today. Will start tweeting :) yours Martin.

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread JP Bader
Is there a reason nobody has tweeted anything since 1/3/12? PPMC folks? On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Tink wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2012, at 13:30, Sebastien Varlet wrote: >>> >>> >>> Ok, nice ideas guys. Twitter is cool. But the main question was: "Is >>> anyone on this list maintaining this?" >

Re: While we're waiting for Mustella

2012-03-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 3/28/12 10:55 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > Hi, > >> ComponentSmoke is obsolete. > Sure when Mustella gets donated. No, it is obsolete now, as in, none of the Flex developers used it to check the work for the past several years. > >> MXUnit will probably not get donated. > We can probably

Re: Flex timeline page added to the website, feedback welcome

2012-03-29 Thread Carol Frampton
On 3/28/12 5 :21PM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: >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

[jira] [Created] (FLEX-34) DropdownList items dupplication => virtualLayout

2012-03-29 Thread Julien BUSSI (Created) (JIRA)
DropdownList items dupplication => virtualLayout Key: FLEX-34 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34 Project: Apache Flex Issue Type: Bug Environment: Flex 4.5.1

Re: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread Tink
On 29 Mar 2012, at 14:23, Jeff Tapper wrote: This is a good example where method overloading would come in handy. But since we don't have that what about just adding Validator.validateAll2(); which would return a Vector.? I don't think we should change the input from Array to Vector type

RE: minor Validator improvment

2012-03-29 Thread Jeff Tapper
This is a good example where method overloading would come in handy. But since we don't have that what about just adding Validator.validateAll2(); which would return a Vector.? I don't think we should change the input from Array to Vector type though, unless there's a way to declare a Vector in MX

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread Tink
On 29 Mar 2012, at 13:30, Sebastien Varlet wrote: Ok, nice ideas guys. Twitter is cool. But the main question was: "Is anyone on this list maintaining this?" No answer to this question means no tweets ! So ? -- Sébastien VARLET 06 07 52 94 70 - Twitter: @svarlet Altares - Interfaces Flex I

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread Sebastien Varlet
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Sebastien Varlet < sebastien.var...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:15 AM, manish sharma wrote: > >> +1 >> >> >> I think we have to tweet all about the process i.e. What is going on >> Apache >> Flex. What is the future of flex. In this way, we ca

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-29 Thread Sebastien Varlet
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:15 AM, manish sharma wrote: > +1 > > > I think we have to tweet all about the process i.e. What is going on Apache > Flex. What is the future of flex. In this way, we can still hold the market > goodwill of Flex. > > > Regards, > > Manish > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1

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

2012-03-29 Thread Raj Raju
It was very nice session , it makes me understand , what's the vision of Apache Flex is . Thanks M.Raju On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jitendra Jain < warriorofheavens...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was a fruitful hangout. We loved it !! Thanks a lot. > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Martin H

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

2012-03-29 Thread Jitendra Jain
It was a fruitful hangout. We loved it !! Thanks a lot. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > First hangout session - short review: > > We just finished the first hangout session. The most discussions were > around unit tests/html and the next release. > I also tried to get s

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

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Heidegger
First hangout session - short review: We just finished the first hangout session. The most discussions were around unit tests/html and the next release. I also tried to get some unit tests working and managed to not-show-off skills. I am not sure if I have been the best host but it gave me a