Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread James Ong
Using ZK and Java is great. I'm still sticking to Flex for developing desktop applications and gaming. Of course, many will still using it for animations, there is no such thing as abandon, some developers are just over use Flash and end up hurting user experience than necessary. When it comes to

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
Unless I'm not understanding it right, ZKoss looks like it requires some web server configuration in order to run. Flex doesn't, which is nice for people like me who work in server environments they can't control. But it looks like awesome tech! Am I right about it needing server side

[flexcoders] Re: How to access IP camera with Adobe air?

2012-01-12 Thread markflex2007
Hi James, Thanks for help. how to to access offline mjpeg video? please give me a help. Thanks Mark --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, James Ong yanlilei64@... wrote: Video stream back through mjpeg and output to AIR will be tricky unless you have a streaming server and serve over UDP

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Virtual Camera

2012-01-12 Thread markflex2007
any way flex can access Virtual Camera? Thanks Mark --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Dave Cates dave.cates@... wrote: Hey Mark, Camera.getCamera will only work for physically connected devices to the machine where the Flash app is running - like a USB webcam. What you want to do is

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
Hi Jason, The only configuration is that I had to drop several of their jar files into the endorsed directory of Tomcat. Ron --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Merrill, Jason jason.merrill@... wrote: Unless I'm not understanding it right, ZKoss looks like it requires some web server

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
Hi James, I certainly respect the decision of those who are sticking with Flex, but I would suggest that developers do so with the recognition that they may be developing with a technology that isn't going to be around that long. I could write at length about this, but, in a nutshell, here's

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread ganaraj p r
Flex is an awesome product.Period. Atleast until version 3. Then they bloated it. The new spark component makes it easy to do the skinning but it costs a big deal in download time. I am not sure there is anything flex specific in the Flash Player Runtime. Flex is totally written with AS3 and the

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yep, and with no ability to access or make mods to the server like that, it would be a no-go for us unfortunately. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect II Bank of America Global Learning ___ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
I think it will be interesting to see how many people actually show up at MAX this year. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect II Bank of America Global Learning ___ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ganaraj p

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 4.5: Flex in 5 Days

2012-01-12 Thread Jeff Hindman
I went through the entire series a few months ago . no crashes, no problems. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Davidson, Jerry Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:58 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 4.5: Flex in 5 Days

[flexcoders] date problem?

2012-01-12 Thread luvfotography
Why does: trace((new Date(2012,01,15)).toString()); and trace((new Date('2012','01','15')).toString()); return: Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 GMT-0800 2012 February??

[flexcoders] Re: date problem?

2012-01-12 Thread luvfotography
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Date.html#methodSummary says: If you pass two or more arguments, the Date object is assigned a time value based on the argument values passed, which represent the date's year, month, date, hour, minute, second, and

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 4.5: Flex in 5 Days

2012-01-12 Thread Glenn Williams
So did I. I just wanted to try it out. It may have helped that Ive been using flex for years but Im sure I just followed the whole course and can't remember do any work-rounds or anything like that. I thought, for a free training set is was actually really good. I don't really know of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Alex Harui
I can’t think of anything the FlashPlayer could unload from its footprint that wouldn’t just “break the web” for lots of other non-Flex swfs. Adobe has no interest in “breaking the web” and thus it will continue to invest in not doing so. I’m not sure of your definition of “supported

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
I think you make my point for me by comparing the future of Flex to COBOL. Yes, it's still around, but we all wish it wasn't and curse it everytime we have to deal with it. As you say, it is hard to get out. So, yes, I still have projects written in Flex that will undoubtedly continue to run

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Alex Harui
I’ve never used COBOL, but I haven’t heard anyone say they really liked working in with it. That’s not true for Flex so even if it gets marginalized because it always remains locked to ActionScript and FlashPlayer, it may not be the subject of cursing. I’m not in disagreement that in the long

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
So, I think we have a similar vision for where things are going with respect to Adobe supporting HTML5 for the enterprise. But, I fail to see why Flex and FlashBuilder would have any part of that. Why not just fall back to your excellent product, Dreamweaver, and enhance it as the IDE for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Rishi Tandon
Well Ron, I don't agree with you. There is a difference between a reality and our own perception. I have seen a huge demand for flex based solution in Education (hmh, piersons) Finance (j p morgon, boa) Healthcare (hospira) Entertainment (directv) Ecommerce ( eBay ) and the list goes on and on...

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Tunde Majolagbe
Hi All, someone said adobe will not support flex in 5 to 10 years time and hence it poses a threat to flex developers. I beg to deffer because we need to clearly distinct a vendor from her products. A vendor changes focus to another phase of technology does not mean the vendor will

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
Rishi Tandon, Seems to me, from your signature, that you have an invested interest in Flex continuing. I would say that makes it difficult for you to see the difference between a reality and our own perception, as you so aptly put it. The least Adobe could do, after kicking Flex out to go live

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Alex Harui
Flex and FlashBuilder are not part of Adobe’s HTML strategy per-se. FlashBuilder is being directed towards Gaming in Flash, Flex is being donated to the community. It is the community that has lots of investment in the Flex/AS/FP stack that are looking reworking the Flex paradigm to output to

[flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-12 Thread Ron G
I have used Flex since 2006, and I have used ZKoss within the last year. I can tell you that the learning curve of ZKoss is much lower than Flex, and the development cycle is even faster. In your spare time, if you're curious like me and like to check out different technologies, give it a