I've kindof been sitting on this for a while but I thought I'd put it out there. I'd like to create a design and development tool for designers and developers. Usually, you have a really good development tool with adequate design tools or a really good design tool with adequate or no development. If Flash Catalyst and FB had continued I'm sure it would have arrived close to the tool I'd like to build and use. I'd say close because I would add in some things like behaviors and other things that may not fit into a design or development only product but would make sense in a combined tool and in the context of the workflow of daily design and development work.
This is a little demo I think I shared at one point, http://www.radii8.com/demo/. I've been working on this for a while and it grew mainly out of the need to see what a change looked like without recompiling (and for other reasons obviously). It's just a prototype (and it's breakable). Click New Project. Drag components from the components panel on to the stage. Set properties. Notice the document tree structure as it's being built in the document panel. Scroll down and you'll see a properties panel, constraint panel, a history panel with undo and redo and a few others. It's no where near where I want it to be. What's not shown but partially working is a timeline view (to view and play effects), get color under mouse, console, walk up the component tree outline view and style inheritance information view. You can use some of these features in this drop in class now, https://github.com/monkeypunch3/flexcapacitor/blob/master/MainLibrary/src/com/flexcapacitor/utils/MiniInspector.as. I use this class everyday. Add it to your application, set the options and at runtime command click on a visual element. More of my hopes are here, http://www.radii8.com/blog/?page_id=2. If I could summarize what Polygeek said when asked how he designed things, "First I think of how I'd like it in a perfect world and then work towards that". That. *I think that's right. Correct me if I'm wrong. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Sebastian Mohr <flex.masul...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Paul ... made a remark on this. > > -- > 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 Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Paul Hastings <paul.hasti...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On 2/6/2013 7:47 PM, Sebastian Mohr wrote: > > > >> Sorry ... forgot to add the link to the "Designer & > >> Developer Tools" wiki page [1] ;) Any remarks > >> welcome :) > >> > > > > FB4.6 can't use MXML design view w/apache flex 4.9. > > > > > > >
