Thanks Om, Didn't expect that the FXG to SVG interoperability could be so simple. Will think about its implications :)
-- Sebastian (PPMC) Interaction Designer Looking for a Login Example with Apache Flex? Please check out this code: http://code.google.com/p/masuland/wiki/LoginExample On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I quickly whipped up a proof of concept proving the FXG to SVG > interoperability. > > The working demo can be found here: > http://people.apache.org/~bigosmallm/fxg2svg/svg.html (Tested to be > working > fine on Chrome 25, Firefox 19 and IE 10 on Windows) > > I did not have time to write a stylesheet, so I hand created a simple SVG > element based on an FXG element. I chose the most basic element: "Rect" > which is available as "rect" in SVG. Once I had the basic set up working, > all I had to do was modify the svg's attributes using Javascript. This > happens during runtime, but we could totally move this to the compilation > stage. > > As you can see, I have proven that rendering fidelity can be achieved using > this route. At the same time, this can be plugged into the AS to JS > translation piece that Mike, Erik, et al. are working on. From what I see > in that project, there is no faithful rendering solution (yet) You > probably discussed about rendering that I might have missed. > > When I get some more time, I will start fiddling with more and more FXG > elements and see how SVG handles them. At some point, writing a stylesheet > would be more efficient. > > Just right click either the Flex app or the HTML content to view the source > of both. Comments and suggestions for improvement highly appreciated. > This is a very basic demo, dealing mostly about rendering fidelity. But > IMHO, this unleashes a ton of possibilities. > > (And no, FXG is not dead - yet. ;-) ) > > Thanks, > Om >
