Other devs at my company who were tasked with looking at playscript said it wasn't so good. brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Arnoud Bos <arn...@artim-interactive.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it's also interesting to know that Zynga is creating a new language: > Playscript. > It's based on actionscript3 and C# and could be regarded as Actionscript 4 > feature wise. > The compiler is open source and based on mono. > > They also support compiling plain actionscript3 projects to run on mono with > their > compiler modifications. Or you can compile AOT it via Xamarin plugins to run > native. So in effect this is > removing the dependency on Air for mobile and desktop actionscript projects. > > Now the reason i mention it here is that they plan to support > Stage3D/Starling/Away3D/Feathers > but not the displaylist. So in theory flex, if using stage3d for rendering, > could run on mono > or native without adobe compilers involved if i understand correctly. > > To make this work there's a few things needed: > * falcon should output actionscript3 / playscript (for mxml support) > * flex should replace the displaylist with stage3d (maybe starling) > * the zynga compiler needs to mature > > Seems like a really big effort is needed to pull this off, but i thought i'd > mention it for completeness of the discussion. > > Anyway for people interested here's the link: > http://playscript.github.io > > best, Arnoud > > > > > On 10-07-2013, at 18:38, Carlos Rovira <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> from time to time people comes with the desire to see Flex running on >> Stage3D. I would want to recopile all the state of the art info about this >> topic and see if is possible and how much work it would require. >> >> I know people like J.Campos did two attempts and get valious research from >> that experience. There's things to get into account like accessibility. >> >> Please could people share in this thread the things they know in order to >> recopile all info? Is there some things to take into account that could >> make Stage3D not possible for Flex? Could we overpass it and make it >> possible? If it would be possible...it will brings real benefits? >> >> If some work is done in this topic, I'd propose to make focused in this >> particular thing and unlike FlexJS, here I will not try to break >> UIComponent in small parts, or break compatibility. Even if it could be >> possible to have a global flag like "enableStage3D" to make our apps run on >> Stage3D if is true or remain in normal display layer, it could be great. >> >> Thanks in advance for any insight regarding this topic. >> >> Best >> >> Carlos > > > > > > >
