Its possible you might "localize" an image, sound file, video file, css, etc. Strings only is so 1990's :-)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > > only Strings. I always found it strange to have Embeds and > ClassReferences in .properties files. > > Nobody ever needs to localize an embedded image? > > - Gordon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Eismann [mailto:bort...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:47 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Asset / i18n resource management improvements > > Hi Alex, > > > IMO, something like an "R" class should not be put into the compiler > > or the IDE. The compiler should be as framework agnostic as possible. > > It is probably possible to create a set of classes that do what R does. > > maybe I misuderstand you here, but to get compile time code hinting in an > IDE and compile time checking for resource accesses, I wonder how something > like R should be generated then if not by the compiler? > > > How many of you use non-String resources? A String-only resource > > system can be so much better optimized than what we have now. I would > > love to phase out the current ResourceManager subsystem and replace it > > with something much smaller and faster. > > only Strings. I always found it strange to have Embeds and ClassReferences > in .properties files. > > Dirk. >
