I'm not sure I understood all of that, and it sounds interesting, but I'm not clear how you can "assemble" the code that glues the UI together at runtime without a compiler. For example, if I want to click on something to change from state A to state B, that is usually done in ActionScript.
-Alex On 1/16/16, 5:20 PM, "jude" <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: >If you do we can do some runtime live rendering without using a compiler. >I'm doing that now for MXML using only metadata and doing it live for HTML >markup. > >For MXML import there are two passes, one is to check for valid XML and if >not valid return any errors, then if it is valid, we pass it to the >MXMLDocumentImporter where it looks up definitions and builds the page >dynamically from the source code. > >For HTML, each keypress, the new source is assembled (arranged) into a >complete HTML page. It's then sent to the HTML Loader instance and it's >able to render on the fly. Changes happen almost instantly for layout and >few seconds if you use images. > >For MXML I haven't tried it for live editing. I'll run some tests but I >think it may render / update in a few seconds. I imagine this would be the >same for FlexJS. There are certainly things that could speed up rendering >further. > >But, for it to work it needs metadata. Then, you would write an >FlexJSDocumentImporter class and register the FlexJS components / >definitions that you want to import. > >I'll put these classes in the public FC library and, if no one else gets >to >it before I do, they can assemble a (alternative) runtime FlexJS editor / >viewer. The alternative is to support a in the browser renderer where the >compiler is not available (client side only) that Om was talking about. It >wouldn't support the AS3 though. > >On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 1/15/16, 8:39 PM, "jude" <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Does FlexJS support a reflection like describeType method? Is there >>Flex >> >like metadata in it? >> >> We haven't implemented that yet. I was just about to start in on some >>of >> the framework-related code for some of it. It is needed to do a more >> Spark-like component set. >> >> -Alex >> >>
