Re: alternatives to flash builder

2013-01-02 Thread Alain Ekambi
We use basic eclipse with the gwt plugin. All free in java. Nothing beats that :) On Jan 2, 2013 5:39 PM, "Nick Tsitlakidis" wrote: > Never tried FDT but I love IntelliJ. It certainly needs some time so you > can understand it's concepts but I think you will be greatly rewarded > because of its f

Re: Flash4j 3.0 is here

2012-11-27 Thread Alain Ekambi
rst release > as well ;) > Good job! > > On 27 November 2012 17:11, Alain Ekambi wrote: > > > I m glad to annouce the GA release of Flash4j. > > If you live Flash/Flex and Java this could be for you. > > > > http://emitrom.com/flash4j > > > > Cheers, > > > > Alain >

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-21 Thread Alain Ekambi
@Hordur "Since I use JavaEE for the backend for my apps, this would be a killer scenario for me" This is exactly why we create Flash4j. For beeing able to write our Flex apps in ONE language(Java) instead of ActionScriot/MXML/JS/CSS/HTML/Java. 2012/11/21 Carlos Rovira > JavaFx looks prett

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-21 Thread Alain Ekambi
Now not every company build apps at the scale of FaceBook. For most of the case HTML5 mobile apps + PhoneGap(Cordova) are pretty good. 2012/11/21 Hordur Thordarson > On 20.11.2012, at 22:14, Kevin Newman wrote: > > > Mark Zuckerberg also said very publicly that Facebook "burned" (his > word) 2

Re: Randori framework [was Re: What to expect from FalconJS]

2012-11-19 Thread Alain Ekambi
What is the difference between this new Framework and something like GWT or SharpKit ? 2012/11/19 Michael A. Labriola > >* You say this could be C#/Java/AS and so on... I think you start in C# > because you already have that js cross-compiler. You thoughts are about > making the same in differe

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
gt; - Gordon > > -Original Message----- > From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:43 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Flex 5 in haxe > > We dont use ActionScript/MXML at all. > > ActionScript/MXML were not s

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
gt; we have a different approach to Flex development > > Can you elaborate on that a little? > > -Original Message----- > From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:22 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: F

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
@Gordon We actually see an increasing interest in Flex/AIR coming for our customers. With the small team that we have we actualy cant keep up with the requests. But i have to say we have a different approach to Flex development tho. 2012/11/16 Alex Harui > > > > On 11/16/12 1:52 PM, "Fréderic

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
Hello folks, I would like to add my 2 cents to this interesing discussion. First let me share my experience with the Flash platform. We have been building Flash based solutions for many years now. We have different set of products mostly based on GWT that cover all the spectrum (Native mobile

Re: Flex 5 in haxe

2012-11-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
For what i saw and experienced if it s not based on ActionScript Adobe is not interested. No matter how good that could be for Flash in general. 2012/11/16 Eugene Krevenets (aka Hyzhak) > By the way Nicolas Cannasse has been already propose Apache Flex community > to join forces. > http://ncan

Re: Flex on top of Dart (was: To AS4 or not (was: Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon))

2012-10-19 Thread Alain Ekambi
;>>>> What is the purpose to target flash player with JS ? >>>>>> >>>>>> "But irrelevant in the Enterprise world." >>>>>> Flex with ActionScript has already a very good place there. >>>>>> >>>>>&g

Re: Flex on top of Dart (was: To AS4 or not (was: Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon))

2012-10-19 Thread Alain Ekambi
Crazy how people on this list always think you have to do ActionScript to target Flash ! People there s a JS binding inside the Flash Player. Meaning anything that compiles to JS (like Dart, Java, Scala, etc ..) can be used to write applications for the Flash platform. The Flash player is not the

Re: [RT] Flex cross compilation for new environments

2012-09-17 Thread Alain Ekambi
While i appreciate all the effort. What exactly is wrong with the flash player that we necessary need to go away from it ? 2012/9/17 Michael Schmalle > Hi, > > I have been waiting for a thread like this since the compiler code was > released. I've spent the last 3 days completely digesting as

Re: Cross-compiling Flex to HTML5/Javascript (Was : Update on Falcon donation)

2012-08-29 Thread Alain Ekambi
You dont see the relevance of Google making GWT opensource ? Use the right tool for the right job. Why use GWT for a small app ? This is the same for Flex. I see people using Flash/Flex where they should not then complain about performance. If you are not targeting AIR or the Desktop browser yo

Re: Cross-compiling Flex to HTML5/Javascript (Was : Update on Falcon donation)

2012-08-29 Thread Alain Ekambi
GWT generates overbloated JavaScript ? Where do you have that one from ? GWT's Java to JavaScript compiler is one the best out there (The closure compiler beeing imho the best). And GWT 2.5 just added the closure compiler as a compilation option. 2012/8/30 Carlos Rovira > AFAIK Google has made

Re: FABridge support

2012-08-03 Thread Alain Ekambi
Indeed my Email was before the survey. I though that Fabridge was not in the release( looks like i was wrong). @ Scott Guthmann Looking at my Support for the Flex Framework and the Flash platform in general. For more then 4 years i ve been trying to bring Flex/Flash/AIR to Java developers. Bee

Re: [ROADMAP] What is next?

2012-07-25 Thread Alain Ekambi
4.8 does not have FABridge support ? That s really bad 2012/7/25 Keith Sutton > With the successful release of 4.8.0-incubating it would be timely to have > a discussion/consensus around the priorities going forward. > > A couple of fundamental factors should be considered in this discussio

Re: Leveraging HTML5 functionalities

2012-07-10 Thread Alain Ekambi
This is one the reason that motivates us to write a complete Java(GWT) API for Flex. Through GWT (and now the Elemental API in GWT 2.5) we get HTML5 API support out of the box without effort. The product ist called Flex4j http://emitrom.com/flex4j And live demo can be found here : http://www.g

Re: [OT] Dartflash

2012-07-05 Thread Alain Ekambi
No need to wait for dart. The GWT Compiler does a better Job to cross compile to JavaScript and it s also open source. 2012/7/5 Maxime Cowez > @Roland > > From www.dartlang.org : > "Dart compiles to JavaScript, so your Dart web apps will work in multiple > browsers." > "The Dart platform inclu

Re: What is on-topic? Was: Painful story...

2012-06-18 Thread Alain Ekambi
Who exactly decides what s appropritate and what s not ? If one dont like a given topic she should just ignore it. Simple s that. Personally I dont like the idea of telling people what and where they should or should not write stuff. 2012/6/18 John Fletcher > 2012/6/15 Jeffry Houser : > > >

Re: Preliminary release candidate of Apache Flex 4.8.0 (for developers only)

2012-05-11 Thread Alain Ekambi
Nice Stuff Raju !. We are also planing to release something with Apache Flex in the near future. 2012/5/11 Roland Zwaga > > > > OpenLaszlo's LZPix demo application compiled to SWF11 with Apache Flex > 4.8 > > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/semanticmemories/7176235824/in/photostream/lightbox

Re: Flex

2012-04-05 Thread Alain Ekambi
Native Flex (AS3/MXML) integration with JS has never been easy (External Interface is a big pain). This is one of the reasons we went the GWT way with Flex since it gave us esay JS Integration with Flex. 2012/4/5 Martin Heidegger > I'd love to hear more about what approach you would suggest. >

Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-30 Thread Alain Ekambi
And if we want to use Java as your input language. simpy use Eclipse with the GWT plugin for free :) . (That s another reason why we went the GWT route by the way). No matter which route you take. You will love Flex. Best thing out there when it comes to RIA. 2012/3/30 JP Bader > Kiel, > > Th

Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-30 Thread Alain Ekambi
compiled/worked on without using gwt4x - then I > would hardly call it a Flex application but rather a gwt4x application. > Maybe that's just the way I name things: But I think its clearer to > understand that way. > > yours > Martin. > > > On 30/03/2012 18:19

Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-30 Thread Alain Ekambi
I think i understood the question Martin. My point is that ActionScript must NOT be the input language to write Flex applications. One can also do it in Java like in the link i provided. Cheers, Alain On Mar 30, 2012 10:02 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > Hello Alain, > > on-top-of-Flex

Re: [RT] My Flex journey.

2012-03-30 Thread Alain Ekambi
"Yes: ActionScript 3 is fundamental." Hi Martin, While i recommend Flex devs to learn ActionScript. ActionScript is not mandatory to buil Flex applications. Based on a customer request a couple of years ago we create Flex4j (Flex for Java it is) That allows Java developers to write Flex applic

Re: Halo x Spark

2012-03-23 Thread Alain Ekambi
I feel your pain. Reminds me of this post http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/03/22/setting-a-background-image-on-an-fxapplication-in-flex-gumbo/ Basically requiring a degree in computer science to set a backgroundimage. To me all this Spark stuff was the right move in the wrong direction. 2012/3/

Re: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread Alain Ekambi
And what exactly is the main difference between a big scale HTML5/JS/CSS3 application and a big scale Flex app ? If you are not targeting IOs or a mobile device i really dont see why not use Flex as it is right now. All this let s go to HTML5/JS/CSS is just no sence to me. and if you are targeting

Re: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread Alain Ekambi
And what exactly wrong with targeting the Flash player ? Because it does work on Linux ? Well use Chrome. Which is the best browser anyway. I dont really see what s the problem folk. The first day We have a Flex->JS/HTML% compilation. is the first day Flex dies. Why would i then use Flex instead

Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

2012-02-15 Thread Alain Ekambi
You can even do it without using Flex at all. But this is another story :) 2012/2/15 Jeff Tapper > yes > > -Original Message- > From: Fréderic Cox [mailto:frede...@exuvis.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:56 AM > To: Apache Flex Mailing List > Subject: Re: Adobe / Apache / Spo

Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

2012-02-15 Thread Alain Ekambi
For what i understand is that in the future only ActionScript/JS development in FB. No Flex. What a mess from Adobe ! 2012/2/15 Fréderic Cox > > >The biggest news from Adobe was that the next major release of Flash > >builder > >will not have Flex support. > > Can you elaborate on this? Now I'm

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

2012-02-10 Thread Alain Ekambi
012 01:55, Alain Ekambi wrote: > >> We have create something similar to the EXT-GWT explorer for our product >> Gwt4Flex. ( >> http://www.gwt4air.appspot.**com/<http://www.gwt4air.appspot.com/>) >> >> Something in that direction would definitly be usefull. >

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. > > > > 20

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 >

Re: [Discussion] Professional Quality Themes for Flex

2012-02-06 Thread Alain Ekambi
I think Abdoul was asking some advices about how he could start no ? 2012/2/6 João Fernandes > Clearly having multiple themes available is a case that could be defined as > flex-extras project instead of the flex-core. > > João Fernandes >

Re: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-02-05 Thread Alain Ekambi
@Peter I agree with you. But i was not trying to define was Flex is i was just saying what it is now. If Fley has to go HTML5 it should be because is the right thing to do not because HTML5 is the buzzword of today or because there is no Flash on the IPhone, 2012/2/5 Peter Elst > > We as a F

Re: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-02-05 Thread Alain Ekambi
I think it s important to know his identitity as a community. Flex to me is framework made to build RIAs on top of the flash player. And there is nothing wrong with that !!! The first day we start cross compiling to HTML/JS/CSS is the day Flex will start going away. Because why should one use Fle