IMHO a community is not at all built this way, any answer is better then no answer. For developers we ask a question if it goes without response we think either they are ignoring the question, can't be bothered, or it's a bug. Since the first thought is that they can't be bothered we continue to try and find a solution to the problem, until completely frustrated.
Theses things are very important (to me at least) when choosing to switch from a dot net development environment to something such as flex. I've been working with flex for a year now, and of course I'm very happy with it, however I feel that the community involvement from adobe is rather lacking. You can't hope to build a solid community that supports it self, we are not the experts, you are. We need your help, and you need our help. But; the communication, and participation in the building of the community has to work both way's. I've answered far more questions then I have had answered, I participated in the alpha testing, I've reported bug's in this forum. All this I'm very willing to do, and continue doing. However your community support people could at least take the time and read the question, and either confirm it as a bug, not possible, or give an idea of where to look. I'm not unhappy with Flex, I'm rather impressed and energized. Learning a new language, and platform is difficult, and time consuming. Why are there no tutorials except the few you have done to get people up to speed, where is all the learn by example stuff, tips, general community building. Surly you can invest in some full time community support personnel. Flex is moving Adobe into a developer realm, as apposed to the designer realm. I think if you hope to convince the developer realm (a more demanding task) community involvement from Abode needs to be greatly increased. A couple blog entries a week will not do it. A couple of questions answered here, and there will not do it. We need to see that your behind us, that you want to help us succeed with your product, that you continue to listen, and that you're doing everything humanly possible to help get us up to speed. Flex has the potential to be more then just some other platform. In order to go head to head with MS, and unlock the dedicated developer community they've built, you need to greatly increase your community involvement. Hopefully in posting this I've not managed to get on the spam/ignore list of all Adobe support :) Here are some example things with no response, I'm sure if asked, every person in this forum could repost at least 1 or 2 unanswered questions. Any answer is better then none. Garbage collection and removeChild [Flex 2 beta 3]? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/40262 E4X Interpreter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/40342? threaded=1&var=1&p=1 I can't get a xml chain to bind here. [Bindable] public var boundtarget:XML = new XML (<item><namex>Jason</namex></item>); private var owatch:ChangeWatcher; private function Init_TargetBinding():void{ //build the array for the property chain owatch = BindingUtils.bindProperty(text1, "text",this, [ "boundtarget","namex"]); trace(owatch.isWatching()); } <mx:TextInput id="text1" width="100%"/> as well as being able to do the below BindingUtils.bindProperty( txtField, "text", this, ["xdata","item","(@id=='3456')","description"] ); Bug confirmation please ? Felx 2.0 b3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/39228 FileReference upload bytes FB2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/35364 Still problems with Tree, and drag and drop Flex 2.0 b3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/37927 Cursor questions Flex 2.0 B3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/38461 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
