Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-02-01 Thread Cortlandt Winters
Hi Jeffry, Hopefully this gets added to the list in the right way as I'm cutting and pasting from reading the search archives. Incidentally, we should include instructions on how to search the archives on the home page for the project, it's very difficult to locate instructions, in the end I had

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Roland Zwaga
I guess I'll have to chime in here then :) Right now I think having AOP as a framework feature is the most realistic, once Falcon fully drops we might start to see compile-time weaving, but for run-time dynamic proxies it might be an idea to make it a framework feature. I am the author of as3common

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
>>AOP is probably a language thing, which we do not have control of. Fair point Alex, AOP probably would better be a language feature rather than a framework feature. Though we might see something sooner if we implement it as a framework feature. Having said that if enough f the micro-architecture

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/9/12 12:15 PM, "Doug McCune" wrote: > > Alex, does the Apache style of individual user contributions lend itself > better to flushing this out? This is clearly something you've been working > on at Adobe, but does the fact that Flex is now an Apache project and you > are acting as an ind

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Doug McCune
> > My current thoughts are to create a framework that is very granular and > uses > lots of composition. I have prototypes where HelloWorld is a 28K swf. Alex, does the Apache style of individual user contributions lend itself better to flushing this out? This is clearly something you've been w

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/9/12 10:31 AM, "Michael Schmalle" wrote: > Alex, can you say what your framework classes are based on? Is this > something where mobile and multi-touch can be used/composed but the > framework not dependent on them? My current thoughts are to create a framework that is very granular and

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Schmalle
Quoting Alex Harui : On 1/9/12 8:15 AM, "Carlos Rovira" wrote: * Dinamic View States ...We need the capability to create states on the fly and let other parts handle this dinamic view states (transitions,...). Without this, view states are a bit limited. Adobe has some work in this area

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/9/12 8:45 AM, "Jonathan Campos" wrote: > I agree that "dynamic view states" isn't exactly clear to me. This is probably just MXML/AS equivalence. Can you do everything in AS that you can do in MXML. It is not quite possible or very hard for states and transitions today. > I could see

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/9/12 8:15 AM, "Carlos Rovira" wrote: > * Dinamic View States > > ...We need the capability to create states on the fly and let > other parts handle this dinamic view states (transitions,...). Without > this, view states are a bit limited. > Adobe has some work in this area that will lik

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
+1 to the AOP idea On 9 January 2012 17:06, Jonathan Campos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Schmalle >wrote: > > > I agree to, something that would deprecate the; > > > It will probably be something I will focus on. So I can get ride of: > > > > > > . . . > > And all the o

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Campos
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Schmalle wrote: > I agree to, something that would deprecate the; It will probably be something I will focus on. So I can get ride of: . . . And all the other code required to make that work. -- Jonathan Campos

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Schmalle
Quoting Jonathan Campos : On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: Do you have a use case for dynamic view states? I can honestly say I've never been limited by the current implementation. I agree that "dynamic view states" isn't exactly clear to me. I could see a need to off

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Campos
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > Do you have a use case for dynamic view states? I can honestly say I've > never been limited by the current implementation. I agree that "dynamic view states" isn't exactly clear to me. I could see a need to official support for "multi-di

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread João Saleiro
Sorry, in my last email I deleted accidentally the first part: On 09-01-2012 16:37, Nick Collins wrote: Out of curiosity, what Maven support are you looking for that Flex-Mojos doesn't provide, other than being natively integrated into the compiler, perhaps? - public repositories for the SDK

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Jeffry Houser
Do you have a use case for dynamic view states? I can honestly say I've never been limited by the current implementation. In the Flex 3 era you could define states on the fly; but it could be a pain. I have never dug into the underpinnings of the Spark State system, though. On 1/9/2012

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread João Saleiro
- public repositories for the SDK and other components - plugin to generate flash builder / flashdevelop / FDT / etc project files - Marvin Froeder subscribed here on the Flex mailing list :o) João Saleiro

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Nick Collins
Out of curiosity, what Maven support are you looking for that Flex-Mojos doesn't provide, other than being natively integrated into the compiler, perhaps? Nick Collins On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Carlos Rovira < carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would want to share my though

Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, I would want to share my thoughts about what changes would like to see in forthcoming Apache Flex releases (far beyond 4.6.1 that would bring nothing new AFAIK and will be only serve to put the project in the new Apache rails). I'm referring to Apache Flex 4.7, 4.8, 4.9...and so on. This is o