Mike,
Yes, that's a clear introduction of what it aims to and it was important to
clarify that.
On the wiki page, l would like to understand little bit more, even if maybe,
not sure, I can figure out what is a javascript target, AST walker,
JavaScript emitter and node switch strategy, it would be nice if it would be
explained.
-Fred.
-----Message d'origine-----
From: Michael Schmalle
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:03 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: [FalconJx] where I'm going to be
Yeah,
When I wrote that I was basically brainstorming and talking to myself.
Since it's in the trunk now, it does require a more laymans
explanation which I will work on.
Really, here is the Overview.
"FalconJx is being designed to be able to compile ActionScript3 source
code business logic to JavaScript business logic. At the moment, there
are no plans for the "majic bullet" compile to SWF and Browser with
the same view code."
When I say business logic, I mean, no views, no ui components, no
flash display list to javascript DOM conversations. Just business logic.
My main intention is not to "bloat" the project's definition with over
expectations like what happened in the definition of FalconJS.
I just want to be able to write OOP type strict code in AS3 and
compile it to JavaScript at the moment.
Mike
Quoting Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>:
Mike,
Q: How does it work?
A: Basically we are utilizing the fantastic AST IASNode structure,
traversing the nodes and visiting them individually with an emitter. The
difference here is the AST walker is a hand written implementation that
can easily be maintained and optimized per individual specs.
I've been lost right after the word "Basically", as many people who never
did anything regarding compilers but compiling, there are some words that
hurts :) that's the reason why I said "introduction/overview " meaning
something more basic that could help to understand what is written on the
wiki page.
-Fred
-----Message d'origine----- From: Michael Schmalle
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:38 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: [FalconJx] where I'm going to be
I outlined some of this a while ago;
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FalconJx+Prototype
Mike
Quoting Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>:
Yes, you right Carol, this information is very helpful and even more
that, a good introduction/overview of how it works, what's the AST,
..., would be also welcomed I guess.
-Fred
-----Message d'origine----- From: Carol Frampton
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:30 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: [FalconJx] where I'm going to be
This would be good info to post somewhere on the website since I'm sure
Frederic isn't the only one wondering.
Carol
On 1/18/13 6 :41AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:
Frederic,
There are currently two JS cross compilation projects happening:
FalconJS and FalconJx.
FalconJS is a project started by Alex Harui. It is currently the most
complete implementation and has (limited?) MXML parsing. The FalconJS
compiler will take an MXML and AS project and output a valid HTML/JS
application. FalconJS does depend on a custom AS framework (i.e. won't
work with the Flex SDK) and corresponding JS framework. This framework
goes by the name of FlexJS. Read more about it on the Wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototype
FalconJx is the 'alternative' project from Michael Schmalle. It uses
an alternative approach to AS3 compilation (don't ask for details, I
have no clue about the innards of that code). One of it's main selling
points (from my humble point of view) is that it has a very flexible
architecture for outputting different flavours of JS. The status of
this project is that we are working on getting complete AS3 language
feature coverage in place. This means that we are working towards
~100% translation of AS into JS. I'm using the Google Closure Tools to
augment standard JS to try and match the original AS language
features. This is coming along nicely, but I'm sure the devil will be
in the details. Read more on the 'goog' way here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/AS+to+JS+-+the+%27goog%27
+Way
FalconJx future: once we have AS (and hopefully MXML, at some point)
translating into JS and have functional tests in place, the challenge
will become to come up with both AS and JS framework to actually allow
for application development. I'm silly enough to still cling to the
idea that we'll be able to use (most of) the Flex SDK and create a
compatible JS library... but I'm sure others will declare me insane
for just dreaming about that :-)
Have fun,
EdB
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Fréderic Cox <coxfrede...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm following your work with great interest, but I'm afraid as a
"regular"
AS3 developer with no background in compilers this is a bit too
technical
for me. I was wondering if you could explain in a non-technical way
what
the status of the project is at this moment.
Questions I have:
- I have an AS3 project, what can I do with FalconJx? Will it run in
the
browser already?
- I have a Flex project with MXML, can it run in the browser with
FalconJx
instead of Flash Player?
- Is it technically possible to write in AS3/MXML and without Flash run
the content in the browser, how does it reflect to the "pages" paradigm
(history) and the DOM?
Thanks for your hard work, just trying to understand where we are at at
this moment
Fréderic Cox
On 18/01/13 12:19, "Michael Schmalle" <apa...@teotigraphix.com> wrote:
Hey all,
Since the project is really taking shape thanks to our great
cooperation, I am going to focus on the nemesis I have left and that
is finishing of the ActionScript emitter.
This project blew up fast with Erik contributing, I didn't get a
chance to fully finish the ActionScript impl. Yes, I might have plans
down the road to make a read/write AS DOM and having a fully
functional AS3 emitter is essential.
Mike
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