Re: [Understanding Royale] Why MXML->JS->HTML instead of MXML->HTML

2017-11-21 Thread Harbs
Good question. When I started using the framework I was wondering the same thing. Most JS frameworks use HTML templates mostly because the HTML is the markup used for the structure of the app. Since we’re writing MXML, there’s no real reason to output HTML. The way other frameworks deal with m

Re: [Understanding Royale] Why MXML->JS->HTML instead of MXML->HTML

2017-11-21 Thread Alex Harui
Components are JS, so I don't think you can create a different component set that output more HTML. Because they are JS, the only way I could think of having them do anything is to run JS that creates HTMLElements. This has the advantage that components that are added dynamically (later) via Stat

Re: [website] Getting started page

2017-11-21 Thread Harbs
The getting started page is confusing to me. Is it getting started developing apps or getting started contributing to the framework? That’s two very different things and two different setup paths. I also agree with Piotr that we need more than one set of instructions. Ultimately, I’d like to sp

Re: [website] list of things to finish

2017-11-21 Thread Harbs
Welcome back! :-) Harbs > On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:18 PM, Olaf Krueger wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > thanks for doing all this work!! > > I am back from our holiday trip and I will try to restart the work on the > "Try-it-now" stuff soon! > > Thanks, > Olaf > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-ro

[Understanding Royale] Why MXML->JS->HTML instead of MXML->HTML

2017-11-21 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi, I noticed that the compiler builds JS from MXML and the JS finally creates the HTML elements dynamically at runtime. I just wonder what is the benefit of this and if it would also possible to introduce a component set that builds HTML from MXML directly. Thanks, Olaf -- Sent from: http://a

Re: [website] list of things to finish

2017-11-21 Thread Olaf Krueger
Hi Carlos, thanks for doing all this work!! I am back from our holiday trip and I will try to restart the work on the "Try-it-now" stuff soon! Thanks, Olaf -- Sent from: http://apache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com/

Re: [website] Getting started page

2017-11-21 Thread Piotr Zarzycki
Hi Carlos, Although I'm a HUGE fun of Maven and my setup wasn't change since last 2 years for this project, we should have on that section solid description how to build Royale by ant. - Why ? Cause distribution package of Maven is not usable for IDE (it has to be fixed and I'm not sure when I wi

Re: [website] Getting started page

2017-11-21 Thread Carlos Rovira
Forgot to post the link: http://royale.codeoscopic.com/getting-started/ 2017-11-21 21:01 GMT+01:00 Carlos Rovira : > Hi, > > the getting started page is finished. > > I tried to make this page as simple as possible. We need to ease the > process of build Royale since we see newcomers have many p

[website] list of things to finish

2017-11-21 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, main pages on website are almost ready, to finish it and publish we need: * For my part: focus on HOME and FEATURES pages that are the marketing part of the website. Right now * Review of the rest of the website to find bugs or things that are not what you expect * Team page: provide photos

[website] Getting started page

2017-11-21 Thread Carlos Rovira
Hi, the getting started page is finished. I tried to make this page as simple as possible. We need to ease the process of build Royale since we see newcomers have many problems to start So, I see this page evolving as we get things done: * When NPM is ready, we'll put info here. We need to show

RE: [royale-asjs] branch develop updated: isHeightSizedToContent is a method, not a prop

2017-11-21 Thread Yishay Weiss
Should there be a compiler warning when methods are implicitly converted to Booleans? From: yish...@apache.org Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 1:24:31 PM To: comm...@royale.apache.org Subject: [royale-asjs] branch develop updated: isHeightSizedToContent is a