On 3/22/15, 4:49 AM, "TeotiGraphix" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Well I voted for it. > >To be honest, I am still in the complete dark with FlexJS, what/how it >does >what it does and the new component model. I just thought i would drop this >line to see what the happenings are currently. There’s information on the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS But in short, FlexJS uses a combination of cross-compilation and class substitution. As you may know, the Falcon compiler has the notion of compilation units. There are compilation units from SWCs and compilation units from MXML and AS. Falcon converts MXML and AS to ABC and combines it with the ABC from the SWCs and outputs a SWF. FalconJX converts MXML and AS to JS, but for SWC compilation units, it tries to find a JS file of the same name. IOW, org.apache.flex.core.UIBase.as is expected to have an org.apache.flex.core.UIBase.js. Some of those JS files are created by cross-compiling AS to JS in library projects. > >I helped write the Randori IntelliJ plugin with doublefx back in 2013. >That >plugin used the FalconJX cross compiler and it worked awesome, just nobody >wanted to use Randori. That was like 600+ hours of my time down the drain >with the plugin and actually writing FalconJX. > >So in a way, I am trying to weigh the pluses and minuses about developing >something that might not get used. Maybe some of that can be repurposed for FlexJS. The gotcha of volunteer-driven technology is that if nobody works on it, it will never get used, but the cool thing about Apache projects is that “everyone” can contribute and those who contribute can help make it something they want. >How would FlexJS integrate with WebGL? I am naive about this. Well, I don’t know anything about WebGL, but essentially, any common pattern of code in any language should be encapsulated. For JS, if you can stick a class-like API surface on that encapsulation, then you can emulate or mock that thing in AS. So if you always write the same sequence of JS code to draw a 3D sphere of a color, radius, and light source, you might write in JS: Sphere = function() { } Sphere.prototype.drawSphere = function (color, radius, lightSource) { // whatever WebGL and other code you need } And in AS you would write: Class Sphere { function drawSphere(color:int, radius:Number, lightSource:Coordinate):void { // code that does the equivalent for Flash. } } The reason I said “mock” is because, if you don’t actually care about the SWF version, you can just write a mock that saves enough space on the screen or does a cheap emulation of the JS version just so the person using the library can exercise the rest of their logic. This is the key thing for FlexJS: we are trying to make it more efficient to write the code you use to glue other people’s code together. The AS VM’s verifier helps you by finding API surface incompatibilities sooner than you might otherwise. -Alex > >Mike > >On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:57 AM, piotrz [via Apache Flex Development] < >ml-node+s2333347n45700...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> I am glad that another person is intrested to helping out with FlexJS! >>:) >> We are growing! :) >> Voting on this ticket would be for sure help to get closer support for >> FlexJS in Intellij. >> https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-116986 >> >> They need to know how much we wanted to this feature. :) >> >> Thank you and Good Luck with setup! :) >> Piotr >> Apache Flex PMC >> piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the >>discussion >> below: >> >> >>http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45 >>680p45700.html >> To unsubscribe from FlexJS compiler, click here >> >><http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServle >>t.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=45680&code=dGVvdGlncmFwaGl4bGxjQGdtY >>WlsLmNvbXw0NTY4MHwxMjE5OTE3NzQ2> >> . >> NAML >> >><http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServle >>t.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabbl >>e.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace >>-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21 >>nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_ema >>il%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> >> > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp456 >80p45701.html >Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
