Does anyone know if there's a complete list of SWF header version tags
in combination with the Flex SDKs? The SWF header version tag (4th
byte value in the SWF file) used to be identical with the Flash Player
version (I think until version number 9), but for the 4.6 SDK 14 is
being written into th
Alex & Justin, thanks for the responses. The information is probably
somewhere on the Adobe website, but I haven't found a complete list.
- Raju
Thanks for all the work you have done to create this preliminary
release. I have been upgrading the Flex SDK in OpenLaszlo to 4.6.0 in
the past weeks (the project had still been using 4.5.0), and did a
quick test run with Apache Flex 4.8.0: Everything seems fine, I can
build the OpenLaszlo SWF11 ke
OpenLaszlo's LZPix demo application compiled to SWF11 with Apache Flex 4.8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/semanticmemories/7176235824/in/photostream/lightbox/
In case you don't know that: OpenMeetings is another Apache incubator
project, which is based on OpenLaszlo - and therefore will be using a
future Apache Flex release.
http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Mark Shen wrote:
> which new features are added to 4.8 from version 4.6.Thanks
http://people.apache.org/~cframpton/ApacheFlexRC/readme
"Apache Flex 4.8.0 is a parity release from Apache of Adobe Flex 4.6."
I have a few questions regarding the target player for the 4.8 SDK,
the -swf-version option, playerglobal.swc version, etc. I'd be
thankful for any input.
1) Apache Flex 4.8 and target-player option
I've read in the Adobe Flex 4.6 docs, that the minimum value for the
-target-player option is 11.1
Thanks a lot for your answers, Oleg.
Regarding 2), the -swf-version option
Here's the first line of output of the swfdump tool applied to a file
compiled with the 4.6 SDK:
Here's the same line of output for an SWF compiled using the 4.5.0 SDK:
The @version attribute and the values here refer t
Question #5, FP security:
Apple announced that with a recent security update FP will be disabled
in Safari, if you don't have the most recent version installed.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/safari-5-1-7-disables-older-flash-plugins-for-increased-security/
That would mean, if you have FP 10
Thanks a lot to all of you for the valuable answers. Would it make
sense to store this information somewhere on a Wiki page? I'd
volunteer to create such a page (summarizing information on SWF file
format, target player version, supported versions of playerglobal.swc,
etc.
If we create a Wiki page
1) -target-player option
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Carol Frampton wrote:
> I just learned this tidbit that relates to this thread. -target-player is
> parsed and is used to replace the tokens
>
> {targetPlayerMajorVersion} and {targetPlayerMinorVersion} that appear in
> any of the config f
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dimitri k. wrote:
> Maybe it's a stupid idea, but how about giving the next release (after the
> parity one) the codename "Dougart" (his twitter handle)?
> He was so much involved in Apache Flex, I feel it would be right to make the
> first real Apache Flex release
Thanks for the update, Dave.
I've never met Doug, but I can imagine how hard the situation is for
his wife and the whole family. Life can be so tough sometimes. On the
other hand, it's great to see this kind of support for his wife from
the Flex community!
Raju
The W3C had a working group within the "Rich Web Client Activity"
named "Declarative Formats for Applications and User Interfaces".
Unfortunately the group stopped working in 2007,
http://www.w3.org/TR/dfaui/
The goals:
"This WG's Charter includes a deliverable named Specification of a
declarative
Thanks, Carol. I'll do some tests later this week.
But I remember that it was mentioned on the list that there might be a
change regarding CFF fonts compared to the 4.6.0. Has there been any
change for that with the 4.8.0 SDK (like requiring an external to
convert fonts for CFF)?
- Raju
Thanks, found it, is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33106 now.
- Raju
Great, thanks, look forward to testing that functionality.
- Raju
Thanks for the udpate, Gordon. That's very good news!
- Raju
I just read the release notes for Flash Player 11.4, which can be found here:
http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/shared/air3-4_flashplayer11-4_p1_releasenotes.pdf
In the section "Authoring for Flash Player 11.4" it's mentioned that
we should use the 4.5.1 Flex SDK, and no
Thanks a lot, Om. Haven't had the time to try, but will do and report
my results back to the list. :-)
Thanks,
Raju
>> I expect nothing short of a wiki page explaining how you did it ;-)
>>
>> BTW, I just noticed that they bumped up the swf-version to 17. Make sure
>> you change the "swf-version" element in /frameworks/flex-config.xml to "17"
>> as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Om
Thanks Om, yes, I saw that they chan
Congratulations, fantastic job by all of you! I never thought that
you'd be able to release a first version of the Apache Flex SDK so
quickly!
Looks like you are trying to build with a 64bit JVM/JDK, but only 32
bit are supported.
The problem might go away if you set the default JVM argument to -d32
(for 32 bit)
Eclipse→Preferences→Java→Installed JRE and add default JVM argument
-d32 (must be small d)
Are you trying to build the SDK, or are you just trying to use the SDK?
>From the Flex 4.6 SDK docs at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7fd9.html
"Note: You must use a 32-bit version of the JDK, version 1.5 or later.
The command line compilers do not work with a 64-bit JDK."
That's strange, I never ran into such a problem. Did the -d32 option fix it?
Even if it's not an app, Chrome for Windows 8 Metro will have the
normal Flash Player without a whitelist built into the browser:
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/try-chrome-in-metro-mode.html
The Apache OpenMeetings team is going to be presenting at the
conference (open source web conferencing solution based on
OpenLaszlo). I can integrate the Flex 4.8.0 SDK into OpenLaszlo, and
if the OpenMeetings would agree, they could be the first Apache
Incubator project using the Apache Flex SDK t
Forgot to mention that: OpenMeetings just released the 2.0 version as
a first release as an Apache Incubator project.
http://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/date/20120726
- Raju
That's great news! Thanks for the update!
- Raju
In the case of OpenLaszlo, the decision was made to use JavaScript 2
as the main language for integration. OpenLaszlo has separate sprite
implementation for the HTML5/DHTML runtime and ActionScript 3.
tags in OpenLaszlo are objects without a visual representation (not in
the display list). When a
And FalconJS or a ActionScript to JavaScript cross-compiler should
definitely be separate project.
Great news, I'll try it out immediately. :-)
Following the instructions in the README file, I was able to build
Falcon on Ubuntu 12.04 with Java 1.6.0_35. The compiler build ran
through, and I was able to generate the SDK ZIP doing an 'ant
dist.flex.sdk'. That's fantastic!
I remember that you said the tests will be missing on the initial cod
I've followed the README file, and manage to run the build process of
Falcon on Ubuntu 12.04 JDK 1.6.0_35 using the Ant target
ant dist.flex.sdk
A ZIP file with the SDK is is generated in compiler/generated/dist/falcon.zip.
When I unzip the SDK and try to run the mxmlc using the shell script,
I found the problem: the classpath is not set correctly in falcon-mxmlc.jar.
Here is the content of MANIFEST.MF:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.2
Created-By: 1.6.0_35-b10 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Sealed: false
Implementation-Title: ActionScript Compiler - MXMLC Command Line Compi
Here is the corresponding snippet from the jar Ant target in
compiler/build.xml (line #281):
Should I file a bug?
- Raju
I've created a new issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33196
I'd check a zipped version of the docs into Subversion. Easy to
download, and you don't have a large number of generated files in the
repository. Most people interested in the docs will probably want the
code anyway, I'm not sure the docs need to be posted to a public URL.
- Raju
Gordon,
It's great to see the Falcon source code contributed to Apache Flex.
Thanks to you and everyone else at Adobe who made that possible.
That's a very valuable contribution!
Is there anything the community can do to help you with the Falcon
code? Testing the build, updating the documentation
One of things mentioned on the Wiki is that there's currently no
binary distribution available.
"No binary distributions are available. Perhaps someone will volunteer
to set up automated builds and a build download page?"
What exactly would such a binary distribution be? Would it be the
files of F
>> I'd check a zipped version of the docs into Subversion.
> I'm pretty sure that it is an "Apache Way" no no to put binary files into
> the repository if it can be avoided. In this case, I don't believe zipping
> up generated docs is an unavoidable approach.
I think the decision should be based
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Justin Mclean wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Okay then, is there a road-map or a plan in this project??
> Being an open source project there is no roadmap as such. People are free to
> work on whatever they want when they want.
>
> If enough users of the SDK think a feature is
Gordon,
I saw that you added the property 'compiler.jar.dependencies' to the
compiler/build.xml. The property contains the correct JARs, but the
'lib/' folder is not needed (since compiler.jar is in the same folder
as the referenced JAR files.
The property value should be:
I've updated the JIRA
With that Class-path entry in the manifest file I can execute mxmlc
without any problems.
- Raju
The errors related to the javadoc target in compiler/build.xml are
related to an incomplete class path. When adding 'ant.jar' to the
classpath, all errors go away. Created a JIRA issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33196
- Raju
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> My top priorities currently are:
>
> 1. Get the top-level Ant targets working properly. For example, 'ant javadoc'
> currently produces compilation errors, probably due to a classpath problem,
> and 'ant main' produces an mxmlc which doesn't
There's still a Flex wiki page called roadmap page somewhere up on apache.org:
https://cwiki.apache.org/FLEX/roadmap.html
Quoting that page: " we're right now deciding the roadmap for next
releases of Apache Flex"
You might want to take that offline, it's a bit confusing.
Adobe published a documen
No, I don't. So go ahead and commit the change. :-)
Thanks, Omar. That's what I guessed, I remember that the roadmap wiki
page was changed long ago. Strange that the old page is still online.
- Raju
Oh, that's interesting, it worked for me without the 'external/' path
for antlr.jar and common-cli.jar. But maybe I had those JARs somewhere
else in my classpath.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> Yes, I think it should build on Linux, and I believe Raju said it he tried
> building on Linux and it worked.
Yes, that's correct. I've been building Falcon on Linux without any problems.
Are you using Ant 1.7? That's a known bug with Ant 1.7.0
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43946
- Raju
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Om wrote:
> Raju,
>
> If I may suggest, it would make life easier for everyone if you contribute
> via patches instead of as comments on the JIRA page.
>
> For one, it looks like you will be contributing more than 2 line changes
> going forward :-) This exercise w
I did a quick test with various Ant versions. I see the warning in
1.7.0, but don't see the warning with 1.7.1 or 1.8.x.
- Raju
Is there any document listing the differences between Falcon's
ActionScript compiler and the Flex 4.6 or 4.8 SDK online somewhere?
I've been running into some problems compiling the OpenLaszlo kernel
and foundation classes, which have been compiling without any problems
with previous versions of th
Thanks, that's exactly was I was looking for!
- Raju
Wouldn't it make sense to use a tag for the Falcon discussions? E.g.
[FALCON] or [COMPILER]?
- Raju
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Michael Schmalle
wrote:
> Right, I forgot about tags. :)
>
> I'm sure [COMPILER] is probably what we want since most people know what a
> compiler is but not what a falcon is in the sense of this project. :)
> Mike
Yes, that makes more sense.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Douglas McCarroll
wrote:
>> How do you configure FB 4.7 64 bit to use 5GB of memory?
>
> I edit the FlashBuilder.ini file. This file lives in the same directory as
> FlashBuilder.exe.
>
> I edit these two line like this:
>
> -Xms5120m
> -Xmx5120m
Just make sure th
Great to see that the dev mailing list is up and running!
Is there any timeline/plan for when we can expect to see the first
source code contribution of Adobe happening? The decision to make
Apache Flex an incubator project was made really fast, therefore I
imagine that it will still take Adobe a
uite in will take longer, so we'll
> probably ask that commits be limited to "safe" things like really simple bug
> fixes and documentation.
>
> -Alex
>
> On 1/3/12 4:11 PM, "Raju Bitter" wrote:
>
>> Great to see that the dev mailing list is up an
;>>
>>> I'm speaking on behalf of the experience and perception in the company
>>>I work for, I'm curious to see if this is also a problem for the rest of
>>>you.
>>>
>>> I'm not the expert here but I'd like to get involved and le
x27;t wouldn't
close the door for a possible HTML5 output of the Flex compiler. I'd
be willing to contribute the knowledge I have on OpenLaszlo to
investigate the possible cross-compilation of a Flex app to HTML5 -
although I'd be only able to do that for 4-5 hours per week.
- Raju
> O
n't even need it
>> anymore?
>>
>> João Fernandes
>>
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Good points, especially with regard to trimming and the search feature.
- Raju
2012/1/5 Iwo Banaś :
> Whatever formatting tool we use we should always make sure to separate
> reformatting from actual code change. It's a nightmare to review a 3 line
> bugfix when the patch contains 300 lines with formatting changes.
That would be excellent, if someone would be willing to do th
Alex,
I read your reply in the asdoctool dicussion:
2012/1/4 Alex Harui :
> Keep in mind that Adobe hopes to contribute Falcon at some later point in
> time which seems to have a much cleaner code base to work from. Although it
> isn't available now. Also keep in mind that the compiler source ma
2012/1/5 Jeffry Houser :
> I'm not sure this needs a new component framework, or set of components.
> (It might, but I just don't know). There are already two approaches to
> this in "early" development. Falcon-JS by Adobe and I believe Michael
> Labriola had done some experiments around that.
2012/1/6 Alex Harui :
> Update on the timeline: Untangling the donated code from the not-donated
> code is turning out to be trickier than we hoped. It won't happen this
> week. We also have to do some legal scrubbing before an official Adobe
> person can sign the Software Grant form.
That's wha
up the @ApacheFlex twitter
>>> and facebook handle? I would recommend that 'someone' be assigned a PR role.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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Thanks for all the logo drafts we've seen so far, great work!
I really like Carlos' first version with the full arc. Very stylish
and dynamic. I don't think the readability will be a problem. Both
words - Apache and Flex - look good in written form, and I'd prefer to
not have an iconic logo like S
How does the evolution of ActionScript relate to Apache Flex? If the
ActionScript standard would change - and the language would be
extended or modified - who would be making that decision? Is there an
"official standard" of the language available to the public, and what
are Adobe's plans for Actio
2012/1/10 Csomák Gábor :
> 1) we have to work together with Adobe, and help the press recognize that
> Flash is not the devil's tool.
> Media is talking about the death of Flash, etc.. because stupid designers
> calculate filters 24 fps in runtime. We have to convince the media,
> therefore the peo
> This project should not, in my opinion, focus on the actual runtime except
> for the very specific cases
> were it is absolutely necessary. I say that we deal with issues regarding
> runtime and language when
> they appear letting the community decide how to best deal with them.
Don't really ag
And Peace! Yes, forgot that. No need to fight! :-)
- Raju
Since the first announcement of Falcon's cross compilation feature
Falcon JS, I've been following the blog posts and discussions around
cross-compilation of ActionScript to JavaScript. How much interest is
there in the Flex community to have JavaScript generation as a future
feature in Flex?
Since
2012/1/10 Csomák Gábor :
> sorry for starting a flame war.
You didn't start a flame war. :-)
> i just meant, that if flash really dies
> (what is the purpose of the media), flex also. recreating it in javascript
> is not an option.
Have you seen the Falcon JS demos in the Flex Summit video?
http:/
2012/1/10 Matthew Poole :
> I dont think it necessarily follows that because the compiler is donated
> that control over the language is assumed. Though it would be fantastic to
> add some of the languges features that have been added to HaXe...
I'm not sure if there are other Adobe products genera
Thanks for your response, Jonathan!
2012/1/10 Jonathan Campos :
> Long story short. I wouldn't hold my breath for what Adobe releases as
> Falcon JS. Not to say that the devs that have worked on it are doing a bad
> job, but it is incomplete and won't be intended as a final product.
That's what I
Thanks for the info/links, Dimitri.
2012/1/10 Dimitri k. :
> From what I heard, the problem is not really about the language but about
> the rendering performances
I still believe that it's possible. Laszlo Systems has created a very
large Flash based RIA called Laszlo Webtop. They can cross-compi
2012/1/10 Peter Elst :
> Thats part of the opportunity that Apache Flex is opening up, technology
> innovation drives interest. There obviously is some uncertainty right now,
> up to us to get it on the rails again.
Very true!
- Raju
> I'll take this chance to make a statement of intent: I will not engage nor
> answer to threads that basically deal with things that have no real
> influence on the immediate future of Flex and how we can bring that to
> fruition.
Good point, but at the beginning of the project I like to have a cl
And you are right, Alex and Carol are doing an amazing job, which I'm
very thankful for.
I've thought again about Rui's comments, and I think he's right: The
first thing Apache Flex needs is a positive start, and not additional
barriers. The Apache Flex community has to proof that the community is
capable of releasing a first version of Apache Flex, and to have the
project infrastruct
2012/1/11 Paul Evans :
>
> On 11 Jan 2012, at 02:04, Rui Silva wrote:
>
>> look like we're trying really hard to find ways this project could or
>> should fail
>
> I have to say I personally didn't reach that conclusion from anything so far
> written.
Thanks, Paul. I think that everyone within the
> I will repeat my cautionary statement that we are working in a constrained
> environment and will likely need to cheat on occasion.
Right, we only need to know when we should cheat. :-)
Have the SWF 11 and SWF 12 file format specification been published by
Adobe? It seems that only the SWF 10 version is online?
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf_file_format_spec_v10.pdf
Folks have been asking the same question in the Adobe forums, but
never got an answer
That should have been SWF 11 and SWF 11.1 of course.
Thanks, Alex. Good to know!
Thanks for the update on Falcon, that sounds promising!
2012/1/14 Alex Harui :
> I am happy to announce that legal has finished its review of the framework
> source code.
> We are awaiting approvals from upper management. Hopefully they are around
> and
> will approve shortly and we can deliver the source code by end-of-day Monday.
Great news, Alex!
Amit,
I've voiced my concerns around the runtime a few times, both in the
incubator mailing lists, and in this mailing list.
http://old.nabble.com/-PROPOSAL--Flex-for-Apache-Incubator-to33005429.html#a33012665
http://markmail.org/search/?q=+list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.flex-dev+avm
Roy Fielding sa
Thanks for the detailed update on Falcon. Sounds very promising, and
it's understandable that it will take some time until the Falcon code
base is at a stage where Adobe feels comfortable with contributing the
code. And mid-2012 sounds much better than the end of the year.
Do you think that it's s
Sounds like - from an enterprise perspective - the 3.x SDK is more
important to the community. And those are probably some of the largest
Flex applications in use. Does Adobe have any numbers on how many
people are using 3.x vs 4.x?
In the Flex Summit video, they said it's based on HTML + JS + SVG.
2012/1/19 Alex Harui :
> I was in the Falcon code in November. It was way easier to figure out how
> to make changes than with MXMLC. Even if it is not documented, I think it
> will be easier to make progress that with the Falcon code base.
I agree, that sounds like it would be much better to use
Adobe already has server-side JavaScript, which they actually call
"Server-side ActionScript", probably for marketing reasons (why would
you want to call JavaScript ActionScript?):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/ssaslr/WS506b356fe242b04e73085b151300e983f4e-8000.html
"Server-Side Actio
You might want to rename this thread to reflect the change in
discussion (from Pushing Flex components thorough the GPU to
Accessibility (desktop and mobile) in Flex apps.
- Raju
Not sure what you are trying to here, but that's exactly the kind of
tone/message an open source community doesn't need!
- Raju
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