Re: Flex Portal considerations

2012-01-26 Thread Cortlandt Winters
I think there are two different use cases here I think there is a common use case where you have a flexible ui that needs to save the positions of hdividedbox and vdividedbox positions and the column widths of datagrids, stuff like that, so that users can customize a flexible view to their tastes

Re: Flex Portal considerations

2012-01-26 Thread Nick Collins
In that case you are talking about AIR, though, which is a different beast from the Flash Player in terms of sandbox limitations. Within the browser player you have limitations on how much data you can store in a shared object before it prompts the user ( if I recall correctly it is 100kb) to ask i

Re: Flex Portal considerations

2012-01-25 Thread Frank Altomare
It seems like this may be pretty well handled in Flex Mobile with View states. Flex gives you some options for how to cash the current view state as well as to write anything you need to a SharedObject. I'm not sure how much of this is handled by the OS but in my experience it has worked pretty we

Re: Flex Portal considerations

2012-01-25 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/25/12 8:14 AM, "Nick Collins" wrote: > > One of the major issues is that of persisting the state of the Flex > application. In a portal environment, one of the core concepts is the idea > of being able to bounce around between pages and having your portlets hold > their state so that wh

Flex Portal considerations

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Collins
I know the whole concept of scratch your own itch is a core concept of Apache, but this is a topic that I believe need a lot of input from the community at large, particularly those doing enterprise development. I have spent a large part of the past 4 years doing Flex development specifically to w