Regarding embedded assets in Royale: There is no embedded asset support at this time because it is not obvious to me it will be worth it. We need a volunteer to devise a strategy that works and implement it.
In Flex/Flash, my understanding is that folks embedded assets to save on server requests for assets like images. That makes sense because, since a SWF is a compressed binary and most assets are compressed binaries, you can essentially append the assets to the SWF. However, for Royale in the browser, every implementation of "embedding" I've seen seems to Base64 encode the asset, converting it to text and increasing the number of bytes. And the resulting Base64 bytes may deteriorate the gzip compression of the .html file. Flash also had frames in the SWF and assets could be embedded on later frames allowing a download progress bar to show up before all of the rest of the SWF is downloaded. I don't know what the equivalent for that is without Flash. I believe another advantage of embedding in Flash was that the asset was ready to be instantiated and placed on the display list right away. I'm not clear that an embedded Base64 image can be used in an <img> tag and prevent "popping" given that Royale generates the <img> tags dynamically. So, we need a volunteer to create some examples of how to use browser embedding in dynamically generated <img> tags so we can see if there will be any benefit or not. And if not, possibly explore other options, such as delivering all assets in one true binary blob somehow. HTH, -Alex On 6/5/19, 7:05 AM, "Frost, Andrew" <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, me :-) I'm pushing Royale internally, I think it has a lot of promise - although I still do find it a little frustrating at times internally! In terms of what support you can give, the sorts of things you're already doing are great, but yes it might mean we lean a little more on this mailing list if we're facing tricky issues. We have one sales case in particular at the moment which has the potential to be very big, we're hoping they move forwards with a proof of concept project which would take a small part of their app and port this to Royale. A few issues we've found so far from investigations: - their flex code is embedding icons that are contained within a SWF. Royale compiler didn't seem to like this, not sure whether it's just syntax or whether we need to pull all the assets out (not a big job, we can automate that..) - they have binding using functions e.g. text="{localizationHelper.getString('fieldName')}", which caused an issue when generating the JavaScript code as the string-within-a-string seemed to upset the parser. We can look at this later perhaps though.. - when we got it compiling, the main thing was with responsiveness i.e. trying to get the app to resize and for all the internal elements to then resize. We may use the MX emulation classes for this but it still looked like more support is needed - although we only looked briefly at this. Once those issues are sorted though, we would have one big task (to recreate a very advanced data grid control that they'd developed in Flex/Flash) and a lot of the rest - around the AS3 logic - should fall into place! I'm hoping we can convince them to go with this solution.. thanks Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Harbs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 June 2019 14:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: AIR and Royale Well to start with: Does anyone know anyone working for them? I’d like to hear from them what it would take for them to push Royale more. > On Jun 4, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Carlos Rovira <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > what's the kind of support you're thinking ? > > > > El mar., 4 jun. 2019 a las 9:36, Piotr Zarzycki > (<[email protected]>) > escribió: > >> Hi Harbs, >> >> I was exactly think the same about that, so I'm keeping finger >> crossed to that effort. >> >> Thanks, >> Piotr >> >> wt., 4 cze 2019 o 09:34 Harbs <[email protected]> napisał(a): >> >>> I just heard about this announcement.[1] >>> >>> I went over to the Harman site and was reading this page.[2] >>> >>> I was particularly struck by this statement: >>> >>> HARMAN’s offerings also include consultancy, support and migration >>> services for companies looking to move their applications away from >>> Flash technologies over to HTML5 via solutions such as Angular, >>> Apache Royale >> and >>> other JavaScript based frameworks. >>> >>> >>> Considering that they mention Royale explicitly as the number 2 >> framework, >>> I’m guessing they will be pushing Royale to a certain degree. 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