Nobody said it was simple... it's just that he put it together really quickly ;-)
EdB On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Sebastian Mohr <flex.masul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
