Hi Harbs,
that screenshot looks exciting.
Ma team also worked on similar type of apps in Flex and I imagine how
many challenges you had under the hood.
If FlexJS/Royale is ready for this, that's great.
Just wanted to throw something related to XML support. I guess you're
fine now, but might be interesting for the community.
Long time ago I ported Java Xstream XML de/serialization library library
to AS3 and it's available here: https://github.com/tpokrajcic/asx3m.
A lot of work was invested in that code and it works pretty good.
I never had time to explore what would it take to make it work without
Flash (because it relies on Flash reflection API for serialization), but
I guess it would be cool to have something similar for use with FlexJS.
It could theoretically produce/consume any format, not only XML.
Cheers,
Tom
On 20.9.2017. 10:02, Harbs wrote:
Hi Angelo,
It’s great to hear you are working on that! Looking forward to what you come up
with. :-)
Here’s a screenshot of the app. If you want to see more, I can follow up with
you off-list next week. (I will not be online until Sunday.)
https://www.evernote.com/l/AI-Kk-KyF45Am7qKhwjgIF4aEn8ukhdD5wsB/image.png
<https://www.evernote.com/l/AI-Kk-KyF45Am7qKhwjgIF4aEn8ukhdD5wsB/image.png>
In terms of UI, we ended up with a mixture of: FlexJS components, custom drawn
bits, modified MDL, JQuery components and custom components with CSS and JS
taken from the web. I think we’ve proven you can use just about anything you
want in your FlexJS app… ;-)
Yes. It’s a port from Flex. We’ve been working on it for close to a year and a
half. If not for the fact that I had to write XML support from scratch and
write a text engine fro scratch, the port would probably have taken a third of
the time max.
Right now, I’m struggling with weirdness on tablets. Getting text input events
is particularly hard…[1]
We should have a publicly accessible link in a few weeks.
Thanks,
Harbs
[1]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118639
<https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118639>
On Sep 20, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Angelo Lazzari <lazzari.ang...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's really great!!! and really promising!!!
@Harbs: can you share some app screenshots? just to see which components
you are using... it's a porting from a Flex app you did ?
PS: We (Trevor and I) are working on the FlexJS UI, we are trying to find
time slots in our time (as everyone do in this project) ... so even we are
in silent mode...we are working!!! :)
Thank you!!!
Angelo
El mié., 20 sept. 2017 a las 9:28, Harbs (<harbs.li...@gmail.com>) escribió:
We are currently in a “partner preview” of our FlexJS application and
getting feedback from partners prior to a wider preview.
The feedback has been good so far.
I just wanted to share one bit of feedback we got:
Super fast and responsive
I think this is even relative to our old Flash app. This is an app which
is churning a huge amount of data, lots of transformed graphics, lots of
network IO, etc.
This is before I have even done a lot of the performance and memory
optimizations on my todo list.
It’s really a stress test for whatever framework it’s using, and FlexJS
passed with flying colors. It’s a testament to the architecture that Alex
designed, and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone on the team. :-)
We don’t have any real performance comparisons to other JS frameworks yet,
but my educated guess is that we’d probably do better than just about any
other framework.
Harbs
