On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 05:31:22PM +0100, Bouiaw wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to have your advice about implementing openlayers in > ActionScript3. From my point of view, combining OpenLayers class model, > ActionScript3 power, AMF3 data services efficiency and Flash vector and 3D > capabilities may be very exiting. > > I have seen that someone created a project with this goal on Google Code ( > http://code.google.com/p/asopenlayers/), I tried to contact him witout > success. > > I would like to know if someone has began to work on this on your side ? > What do you think about an AS3 port of openlayers ?
"Dear gods and powers, please help us!" :) (I'm not a Flash person, can you tell?) More seriously, I have no specific Flash knowledge, but I do know that OpenLayers was designed pretty extensively around the HTML DOM and access to it. I know this specifically because of the pieces of the HTML DOM I've had to reimplement in JS to do spidermonkey based testing :) Looking through the 'asopenlayers' project, I see that AS3 looks much *less* like Javascript than AS1 (which I've actually written, and tested, with just a JS interpreter). I believe that AS3 also can't be built with Open Source tools: it requires a proprietary build chain. So, I expect that a translation of OpenLayers into AS3 would be more of a "learning from OpenLayers, implementing in Flash". It seems *possible* (Though I don't know how possible) that AS1 would actually allow the usage of some level of shared code; and I would be supportive of finding ways to use OpenLayers code in more ways. An AS3 project is -- based on my limitedk nowledge/browsing at this time -- much less interesting to me personally than an AS1-based project. In any case, it would be good to have some active collaboration with the project. :) Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
