Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Schmalle
> Isn't this version 2.0?  Or does the component source share almost no code with 1.x versions of Flex?Ah well it's 2 but.. It's 1 in my eyes. This shares the same algorithms in layout. Which is what I am mainly concerned with. As far as I am concerned, it is version 2 Flex, version 1 Flex AS3.

RE: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Matt Chotin
10, 2006 9:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private   Flex 2 framework is almost a total revamping, few things were shared from v1.5, guess they still need time to sharpen it a bit. and just like you, for so many times I

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Jeremy Lu
Flex 2 framework is almost a total revamping, few things were shared from v1.5, guess they still need time to sharpen it a bit. and just like you, for so many times I have to clone the whole class just to modify some of the variables marked private, and ends up with lot of dupe stuff inside, t

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Isn't this version 2.0?  Or does the component source share almost no code with 1.x versions of Flex?  I would have expected a 1.x version to be more raw.BTW, I finally gave up on the extension and just cloned the classes.  Unfortunately, now my HDividedBoxExt doesn't display properly in FB.  Ev

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Schmalle
Hey,I totally agree with you. ;-) Most of what you said I have run into myself. What I have done? I created an extended framework from the Container and use composition(this is mainly for major dnd stuff though). I know that doesn't solve your problem with say the divided box, you just want to e

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Michael,I understand why things are marked as private versus protected.  What I'm suggesting is that enough thought isn't going into it and a LOT of stuff is being marked as private that shouldn't be.  This is hobbling component extension.  I have dealt with a lot of frameworks and they generall

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Schmalle
> mark things as protected by default, not private.I disagree, there is good reason why they marked some thing private. I agree that there are things that should be protected like in the TabNavigator etc. The implications of marking things default protected go far beyond the desire to get at eve

Re: [flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Paul BH
I second thatOn 8/10/06, Pan Troglodytes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time and again, I have tried extending components only to find that the important stuff is marked private.  I suggest this approach for adobe: mark things as protected by default, not private. 

[flexcoders] request for adobe: stop being so private

2006-08-10 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Time and again, I have tried extending components only to find that the important stuff is marked private.  I suggest this approach for adobe: mark things as protected by default, not private.  Only mark something as private if you're really, really sure it should never be overridden by someone