Hi James,
I'd love to see what you've written! We're aware that the component
class model is aging and welcome collaboration from the community.
jamesr wrote:
Rami Ojares / AMG Oy wrote:
On Nov 11, 2009 1:19 AM, "Leonardo Mateo" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> That's not true, Flex is very powerful, thanks to ActionScript 3 and
> is a COMPLETE MISTAKE thinking that you have to use it only for small
> and flashy things.
I don't wish to dispute that. I meant that it probably has more GUIs
and templates to get you started quickly. The downside being vendor
lock-in and being at the mercy of your software provider.
When the push comes to shove your best and ONLY documentation is the
source code. That applies to both commercial and open source software
as well as that tiny and most precious piece of software you write
yourself.
- Cheers
I would submit that open laszlo is an easier to learn and manage
language. I believe in the laszlo model, and choose it because of that
belief. However, several key concepts are missing from the download you
get from open laszlo itself. Things like drag and drop and traits have
been poorly defined if at all. The components hierarchy is aging. I've
written a complementary and more modern hierarchy, one which i'd be
happy to share with the community, if it can tolerate incremental
improvement in the documentation and examples.
Laszlo is a view based language, like cocoa. It has not been adequately
utilized in the areas in which it excels most; this is the root problem
of the laszlo community at present, as i see it. The premise is sound.
- james
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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
