Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-06 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 05 Feb 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: Apollo offers one or more offline data stores. So does Flash - with SharedObject. I believe the question was about an embedded database, i.e. can talk SQL. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to vitalistically promote sexy architectures

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-06 Thread Jason Hawryluk
] la part de Tom Chiverton Envoyé : mardi 6 février 2007 11:27 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features On Monday 05 Feb 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: Apollo offers one or more offline data stores. So does Flash - with SharedObject. I believe the question was about

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 02 Feb 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: Only Flash and PDF are supported in 1.0. Not HTML ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to apprehensively improve magnetic deliverables This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Hawryluk
- De : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Jeffry Houser Envoye : samedi 3 fevrier 2007 17:15 A : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features It seems to me there is a lot of speculation about Apollo, based on very little actual

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 11:10 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote: Many users are still disconnected. Nomad users are still common place. Most sales people are getting out o the road in order to create opportunities as opposed to staying in the office. Few rural areas are 100% covered by high speed (wifi,gprs,gsm,3G) access.

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Shannon Hicks
He was referring to plugins that will be supported by the Apollo WebKit engine. Shan Tom Chiverton wrote: On Friday 02 Feb 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: Only Flash and PDF are supported in 1.0. Not HTML ?

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Chambers
I dont have the original thread, but I believe the question was, what plugins are supported within HTML in Apollo. The answer is Flash and PDF. HTML is supported, but not as a plugin. It is a core part of the runtime. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Chiverton wrote: On Friday 02 Feb

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Chambers
Apollo offers one or more offline data stores. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffry Houser wrote: Apollo offers an embedded DB? I haven't heard that yet.

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-04 Thread Jason Hawryluk
: samedi 3 février 2007 16:39 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features Haven't replied too often, but this one struck a chord. In real enterprise-level applications, you are split up into tiers. you have presentation layer (which apollo/flex/flash/etc fits

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-04 Thread Jason Hawryluk
: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Shannon Hicks Envoyé : samedi 3 février 2007 16:38 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features You never said anything about this in your previous email. All you said in your previous email

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread DannyT
totally missing your logic here. jason -Message d'origine- *De :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Shannon Hicks *Envoyé :* vendredi 2 février 2007 18:31 *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features The real value of Apollo

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Shannon Hicks
- *De :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Shannon Hicks *Envoyé :* vendredi 2 février 2007 18:31 *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features The real value of Apollo would be cross-platform applications. I can't

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features The real value of Apollo would be cross-platform applications. I can't run your DLL's on my Mac. If you need DLL's, use VB to build your app, and don't tease me with the false hope of a cross-platform application by building with Apollo

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
It seems to me there is a lot of speculation about Apollo, based on very little actual knowledge. All this speculation of Apollo must have x feature seems premature. I don't Grok Apollo and don't expect to until there is an actual product available or some documentation to read. Why

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Andrey
totally missing your logic here. jason -Message d'origine- *De :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Shannon Hicks *Envoyé :* vendredi 2 février 2007 18:31 *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features The real value of Apollo

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Ryan Stewart
: [flexcoders] Apollo features So your saying it's better for a company to re create the wheel then to leverage their existing investments. 80%+ of business applications are specific to windows not leveraging that investment is just stupid. So now if I have a client that wants to leverage Apollo I

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Christian Weibell
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:34 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features Hi, This feature is KEY for our company too. We are developing speech services (DLL based)...and we will use APOLLO if we can use those DLLs...please, implement it on 1.0

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Newman
Tom Chiverton wrote: Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch native local applications ? As far as I know, Apollo is using webkit, does this include the ability to run other plugins besides Flash (like Java)? If so, can you use one of those other plugins

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 02 Feb 2007, Kevin Newman wrote: Tom Chiverton wrote: Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch native local applications ? As far as I know, Apollo is using webkit, I would *expect* them to do that, did read something somewhere ? does this include

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
To be honest... all this talk I've been hearing about Apollo being used as desktop applications using web technologies... I would kinda expect that you can launch exe passing parameters ( like CLI style or something similar ), talk to dynamic libraries like .dll ( Windows ), .so ( Linux )...

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Jason Hawryluk
. jason -Message d'origine- De : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk Envoyé : vendredi 2 février 2007 16:54 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features To be honest... all this talk I've been

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
You probably heard drag and drop into apollo (local file into app). However, it should be possible to simulate drag from browser into apollo app. mikeh chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Chiverton wrote: I'm sure there was a quote about being able to drag applications of web sites onto

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
Only Flash and PDF are supported in 1.0. I will update the FAQ with the info. http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:developerfaq mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Newman wrote: Tom Chiverton wrote: Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
Actually, that is not necessarily the case. If you look at our descriptions of Apollo, we try to make it very clear that Apollo is focused at bringing RIAs to the desktop. It is this use case that is driving feature prioritization. From the FAQ:

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Shannon Hicks
engaging user experiences. jason -Message d'origine- *De :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk *Envoyé :* vendredi 2 février 2007 16:54 *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
I think that just getting the app out of the browser is also a major advantage. It will still be possible to create platform specific Apollo apps, but (at least for 1.0), when we prioritize features, we are going to prioritize those which enable and encourage cross platform applications. mike

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread João Fernandes
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: sexta-feira, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 17:39 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features I think that just getting the app out of the browser is also a major advantage. It will still be possible to create

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Mike Chambers *Sent:* sexta-feira, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 17:39 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features I think that just getting the app out of the browser is also a major

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Hastings
On 2/3/07, Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Technically, you could create PDFs within Apollo by doing it via ActionScript, but we do have built in APIs for dynamically generating PDF content. wow. Do you have an example of what you would like to do with generating PDF content? (you

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
:* vendredi 2 février 2007 16:54 *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features To be honest... all this talk I've been hearing about Apollo being used as desktop applications using web technologies... I would kinda expect that you can launch exe passing parameters ( like CLI

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Mike Chambers
%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Mike Chambers *Sent:* sexta-feira, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 17:39 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

RE: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-02 Thread Jason Hawryluk
Envoyé : vendredi 2 février 2007 18:31 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features The real value of Apollo would be cross-platform applications. I can't run your DLL's on my Mac. If you need DLL's, use VB to build your app, and don't tease me with the false

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-01 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 31 Jan 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: I think the scenario you described below would be possible without having to launch an EXE Well, yes, if mailto: HREF's are supported, but we may also want to fire up VoIP interface apps etc. etc. (although I would have to think about the pull

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-31 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 30 Jan 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: That is one of the features being considered for 1.0, although it might not make it in. Well, we'd love to see the feature in (which is why I asked :-) ). Obviously if you have this ability, you can write a trivial exe wrapper to get the shared

RE: Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-31 Thread benz
I agree that this feauture is key for our company. Please make it possible to call an exe and pass parameters! On Tuesday 30 Jan 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: That is one of the features being considered for 1.0, although it might not make it in. Well, we'd love to see the feature in (which is

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-31 Thread geminy555
Hi, This feature is KEY for our company too. We are developing speech services (DLL based)...and we will use APOLLO if we can use those DLLs...please, implement it on 1.0 !!! Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that this feauture is key for our company.

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Chambers
I think the scenario you described below would be possible without having to launch an EXE (although I would have to think about the pull the app off your website). mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 30 Jan 2007, Mike Chambers wrote: That is one of the features

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-31 Thread Impudent1
word. add my vote to being able to pass parameters to other exes Impudent1 LeapFrog Productions

[flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Chiverton
Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch native local applications ? -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
extending on that... will we be able to communicate with dynamic libraries? ( like .DLL on windows, .SO on linux ) On 1/30/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch native local applications ? -- Tom Chiverton

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread cisnky
If MDM Zinc can do it, then I expect Apollo to be able. On 1/30/07, Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: extending on that... will we be able to communicate with dynamic libraries? ( like .DLL on windows, .SO on linux ) On 1/30/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Chambers
That is one of the features being considered for 1.0, although it might not make it in. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Chiverton wrote: Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you to launch native local applications ? -- Tom Chiverton

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Chambers
No. That will not be in 1.0. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk wrote: extending on that... will we be able to communicate with dynamic libraries? ( like .DLL on windows, .SO on linux )