RE: alternatives to flash builder

2013-01-02 Thread Tianzhen Lin
Most recent switch to Flash Builder 4.7 was nothing but disappointment. I don't know if it happens to anyone, FB 4.7 hangs on me many times, and it uses substantially more CPU power, and I have to restart it at least once every hour, when the hang up happens at the wrong time, my workspace would b

Re: five years... or less?

2012-10-26 Thread Tianzhen Lin
I don't recall any new versions of Flash Player breaks old contents created years ago, but I remember Microsoft's own Silverlight contents errored out in newer version of Silverlight. I wonder if anyone else has experienced disruption with FP upgrade. Tangent -- Original Message -- Recei

Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon

2012-10-26 Thread Tianzhen Lin
Thibault, This sucks, this is such a cliff hanger! I will have to wait till next year? :) Tangent -- Original Message -- Received: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:36:43 PM EDT From: Thibault Imbert To: "flex-dev@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon > Hi Rick, > > Nope, think a

Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon

2012-10-26 Thread Tianzhen Lin
When Flash Player 9 introduced AS3 and a whole new set of object models, FP 9 then came with different ASVMs that targeted AS3 and the AS2, and the experience was seamless. The Flash Players today maintain such backward compatibility. Unless Adobe has changed the philosophy of excellent backward

RE: To AS4 or not

2012-10-22 Thread Tianzhen Lin
ort would be great. > On Oct 20, 2012 11:48 PM, "Gordon Smith" wrote: > >> Isn't it premature to port the Flex framework if the new runtime >> doesn't support things like accessibility that RIAs need? >> >> - Gordon >> >> --

RE: To AS4 or not

2012-10-20 Thread Tianzhen Lin
I cannot wait to see the specs of AS4, and love to help out porting Flex framework from AS3 to AS4. What would be interesting is to see how to maintain the parity between the two versions, but a good technology is worth the pain to keep it up to date. Tangent -- Original Message -- Recei

RE: I was tired of waiting.

2012-09-11 Thread Tianzhen Lin
Glad to see Flex is making strides! On 9/11/12 6:34 PM, "pepe.f...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hello. > > I heard that Flex SDK team was already broke up a few months ago. > And currently just two people(?) are working on development of > unfinished Flex 4.6 components in their spare time. I mean the

Re: Welcome Om as an Apache Flex Committer and PPMC Member!

2012-06-29 Thread Tianzhen Lin
It is nice to see the momentum built in Flex community, I have my heart for Flex as the best and evolving technology that keeps developers focus on delivering the best UI instead of worrying differences of devices and browsers. I will contribute to the Flex community in terms of features and fixes