Xanders opened a new issue, #1261: URL: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/issues/1261
Hello! Sorry if it was discussed already, I did my best to find something with a search, with no luck. Also, I saw recommendations to use mailinglists for questions, but I have no idea what mailinglist is and how to use it. I hope the GitHub issue is okay for my question. I just came to Apache Royale, because I have a HUGE game written with Adobe Flex about 15 years ago, with MX components. We had a lot of fans of this game who are still using old Firefox with Flash to run it. I wonder, is it possible to compile the game into html/css/js with Apache Royale? I just followed the VSCode tutorial as well as installed the NPM package and Java JDK. I have no idea what Ant or Maven are, do I need them or not, so I didn't install them. My Hello World was up and running. My next step was to add some MX component, so I added `<mx:Label text="Hello World" x="20" y="20" />` into the main component body, and `xmlns:mx="library://ns.apache.org/royale/mx"` attribute to the root. However, I was stuck because I could not compile it with `This tag is unexpected. It will be ignored.` message. I also tried to change `js:Application` to `mx:Application`, or even copy and paste this MXRoyale hello world file: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/mxroyale/HelloWorld/src/main/royale/HelloWorld.mxml But this hello world does not work with same error, and I am totally confused with [HelloWorld.as3proj](https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/mxroyale/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.as3proj), [build.xml](https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/mxroyale/HelloWorld/build.xml) and [pom.xml](https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/mxroyale/HelloWorld/pom.xml) files, because what I have is `asconfig.json` from tutorial, and I cannot find any docs about this config file. Later, I read third time the migration docs here: https://apache.github.io/royale-docs/migrate-an-existing-app/migrate-from-flex BTW, there is a broken "[emulation](https://apache.github.io/migrate-an-existing-app/emulation)" link in the text (`royale-docs` part is missed). I noticed it asks me to add some `+configname=flex` option, however, it does not mention where to add it since I'm not running the compiler myself, VSCode does. I guessed I should add it to `asconfig.json`, just randomly put this everywhere in the file, and bingo, it is `config` property, not `compilerOptions` map! Wow, and my Label was compiled! But trying to put my old project in the folder causes thousands of errors. For example, there are no variable components (mx:String, mx:Object, etc.), there are mx:State, but no mx:SetProperty, no mx:Style, no mx:Script, and lot of properties are missing like relativeTo/creationPolicy for mx:AddChild or backgroundImage for mx:HBox (which my UI relies heavily on). I also have tons of warnings like `Data binding will not be able to detect assignments to '...'.` which looks like a serious error since I really need the data binding. And I have tons of "no type declarations" warnings, which I want to disable but do not know how to. Docs also states `Some popular Flash APIs have been added to the Royale emulation of UIComponent`, but I do not understand how to use it. For example, I have `import flash.utils.ByteArray;` - how should I change it? I'm trying to figure out replacements with myself (even Cursor's AI cannot help 😅), but maybe there is some step-by-step tutorial for converting old Flex projects into Royale? Or any documentation to figure it out? I guess my case is not the first one, maybe someone who did something like this already can point to some articles or anything, or maybe can share a timespan estimation for converting a 90+ components project? If it will take months, maybe it's not a good idea to start, it might be easier to start from scratch with Unity or something like this... For example, if mx:Style is not supported at all, and I have a lot of Flex-CSS rules, it might be heavy work to rewrite them. Sorry if my issue is not structured enough, I still hope it might be a useful use case for your project. Thank you! -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
