I like the goal. I believe an alternate way of getting there would be for someone to build an Eclipse plug-in that adds a new project type like "Apache Flex Project". Don't know how hard that is, but then at least the project would own the code and I think our installer can install it. I'm not sure how many folks are brave enough to install the current patch/hack. And once we know how to create new project types, we can do additional project types for FlexJS and VJS.
-Alex On 10/1/14 6:09 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >> In Flash Builder (with Flex 4.13), when I start typing the name of an >> experimental component (such as ColorPicker) in mxml, Flash Builder >> suggests the experimental component. If I select it, it automatically >> imports the experimental namespace. Might be different with >>FlashDevelop. I >> haven't tried. >> > >You are right, of course. I¹m concerned with discoverability more than >availability. You have to know ³ColorPicker² exists for your method to >work. Equally, if you know that the default namespace prefix for these >components is ¹ns¹, you can start typing that to get a list of all of them >in the autocomplete dialog. If however the prefix was part of the file >³header², it would make referencing it that much easier and it would raise >awareness and visibility. > >As for more exposure to these components, I would lean more toward keeping >> with the best practice of writing Mustella tests. I could just see >> neglecting to write them becoming a slippery slope. I agree that higher >> visibility is important though. I could look it to writing one. I don't >> really know what's involved but I could maybe give it a shot. If we >>wrote a >> few per release, it wouldn't take long before they were all promoted. >> > >A good primer on writing Mustella tests can be found here [1]. It¹s a >tough >read, but taken together with the contents of the Œmustella¹ directory of >the Œflex-sdk¹ repo it should get you started. > >Thanks, > >EdB > >1: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Mustella+Overview > > > >-- >Ix Multimedia Software > >Jan Luykenstraat 27 >3521 VB Utrecht > >T. 06-51952295 >I. www.ixsoftware.nl
