Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Terry Corbet
; flex-us...@incubator.apache.org Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming in Flex

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Shervin Asgari
...@incubator.apache.org Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming in Flex. According to today's

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Devesh Mishra
Please don't mix multiple thread in a single conversation. -Original Message- From: Elena Geller [mailto:elena.gel...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 February 2013 14:49 To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology Not only HTML5. Openplug guys have done amazing things

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Sugan Naicker
, Sugan Naicker South Africa -Original Message- From: Shervin Asgari [mailto:shervin.asg...@webstep.no] Sent: 28 February 2013 11:10 AM To: users@flex.apache.org; Terry Corbet Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology If I where you, I would start looking at other technologies. I personally do

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Tom Chiverton
Flash on Android isn't dead, for instance because of the huge number of people using it for the BBC, for instance, it's been reinstated in the UK. Your second point seems to be 'why use a framework' which has nothing to do with Flex at all really. Tom On 28/02/2013 09:09, Shervin Asgari

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Oliver Wiemer
@flex.apache.org; flex-us...@incubator.apache.org Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Hans J Nuecke
; flex-us...@incubator.apache.org Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming in Flex

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread haseeb ahmed
developoment of AIR applictions has a future. - Original Message - From: Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com To: users@flex.apache.org; flex-users@incubator.apache.**orgflex-us...@incubator.apache.org Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread stephen at stephenjc
Sent: February 27, 2013 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 9:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming in Flex. According to today's

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Mike_L_McConnell
Wow...Irrelevant? That's an absurd statement. I think you're just flame baiting MLM From: Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com To: users@flex.apache.org, Date: 02/28/2013 09:05 AM Subject:Re: Future of Flex technology Now lets keep it real. Flex is irrelevant

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Alain Ekambi
Message- From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:05 PM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology Now lets keep it real. Flex is irrelevant on mobile. 2013/2/28 Haissam Abdul Malak habdulma...@ccc.com.lb Enterprise apps

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Mike_L_McConnell
their apps as long as they work. MLM (Embedded image moved to file: pic16827.gif) From: Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com To: users@flex.apache.org, Date: 02/28/2013 09:10 AM Subject:Re: Future of Flex technology Absolutely not. I love Flex and invested a lot in it. We

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Alain Ekambi
...@gmail.com To: users@flex.apache.org, Date: 02/28/2013 09:10 AM Subject:Re: Future of Flex technology Absolutely not. I love Flex and invested a lot in it. We run numbers every year. Flex is just not there compared to other Frameworks (PhoneGap, Titanium, etc ) when

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Harbs
On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Alain Ekambi wrote: For whatever reason people dont think Flex when they think mobile. Bad marketing at Adobe. Nothing more, nothing less. Most people think it will not even run under iOS. I think it's our job to tell the world that Flex IS relevant on mobile,

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Fréderic Cox
At the company I work we have a sales application that runs on Mac + Win + iPad, it could even run on an Android tablet. And it is the same code .. That is what I call flexible. It works great for us and I know it works great for other companies as well. We are also create Mac/Win desktop apps

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Harbs
Great story! On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Fréderic Cox wrote: At the company I work we have a sales application that runs on Mac + Win + iPad, it could even run on an Android tablet. And it is the same code .. That is what I call flexible. It works great for us and I know it works great for

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 2/28/2013 10:10 AM, Alain Ekambi wrote: We run numbers every year. What numbers? -- Jeffry Houser Technical Entrepreneur 203-379-0773 -- http://www.flextras.com?c=104 UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! -- http://www.theflexshow.com http://www.jeffryhouser.com

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Lionel Pierre
@Alain Ekambi -- Where do you get such numbers? Who contributes to them? How do I make them count my projects? * Lionel* On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.comwrote: Who uses which framework when and for what. 2013/2/28 Jeffry Houser jef...@dot-com-it.com

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Alain Ekambi
@Lionel I cant disclose how we do it. And we def dont count every project in the world. But our numbers are very accurate. Dont get me wrong we love Flex as a technology( Even though we dont like ActionScript, but that s another story :) ) 95% of our customers simply wont use Flex on mobile.

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Mike_L_McConnell
To: users@flex.apache.org, Date: 02/28/2013 11:19 AM Subject:Re: Future of Flex technology @Lionel I cant disclose how we do it. And we def dont count every project in the world. But our numbers are very accurate. Dont get me wrong we love Flex as a technology( Even though we dont like

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Brad Neufeld
28, 2013 12:18:33 PM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology @Lionel I cant disclose how we do it. And we def dont count every project in the world. But our numbers are very accurate. Dont get me wrong we love Flex as a technology( Even though we dont like ActionScript, but that s another story

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Lawdis
glad that it's coming along as well as it is. Steve -Original Message- From: mike_l_mcconn...@lamd.uscourts.gov [mailto:mike_l_mcconn...@lamd.uscourts.gov] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:25 AM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology If you put 10 people

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Jim Powell
I will have to chime in at this point, much like Jeffry I try to convince my clients to use the best technology available for the given product. We live in the valley of Oracle (there are 5 Oracle offices in this valley (Salt Lake)), so Java is a big draw, Adobe is just over the mountain to the

Re: Future of Flex technology - Answers

2013-02-28 Thread Air
How Hard is to write a AIR Player ( Open Source ) ? NWAPAGES.Com On 02/28/2013 12:14 PM, Jim Powell wrote: I will have to chime in at this point, much like Jeffry I try to convince my clients to use the best technology available for the given product. We live in the valley of Oracle

Re: Future of Flex technology - Answers

2013-02-28 Thread Alain Ekambi
I think the Flash part of AIR makes it impossible to opensource. 2013/2/28 Air a...@nwahd.com How Hard is to write a AIR Player ( Open Source ) ? NWAPAGES.Com On 02/28/2013 12:14 PM, Jim Powell wrote: I will have to chime in at this point, much like Jeffry I try to convince my

Re: Future of Flex technology - Answers

2013-02-28 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 2/28/2013 1:20 PM, Alain Ekambi wrote: I think the Flash part of AIR makes it impossible to opensource. Not impossible; but I would expect it to be very difficult if you want 100% compatibility. There are some things, such as video playback which rely on patents or other licensed

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Jim Powell
There is a perception that data could actually mean something, while I have been working on my Doctorate over the past years, I have learned this is not always true. There is a report out that world-wide Microsoft products only appear on 42% of the computers. This is a fully accurate statement,

Re: Future of Flex technology - Answers

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/28/13 10:20 AM, Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Flash part of AIR makes it impossible to opensource. Well, I don't think that is 100% true. There are features of the runtime that currently use proprietary third-party libraries that could potentially block an

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Payne
The perception that Flex is in trouble is mostly a flub from the Adobe Marketing and PR people. I think the real issue is that Adobe just couldn't figure out how to make any serious money off it. There was once a company called Sun that had a similar problem - with Java. I think open sourcing

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Harui
, 2013 09:35 AM Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology Hi Terry, Please re-post this on the mailing list so I can clear up your misunderstandings there and probably help out a bunch of folks who also have the same misunderstandings. Thanks, -Alex On 2/28/13 9:18 AM, Terry Corbet tcor

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, A. What version of Flash and AIR does the latest release of the Apache Flex SDK support? I could be wrong, because it is so out of date that I have not bothered to try it, but when I checked a couple of weeks ago the answers were: Flash 11.2 and AIR 3.4. In the README we state that

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-28 Thread Hertenstein, David
, February 28, 2013 4:15 PM To: Terry Corbet; jef...@dot-com-it.com; users@flex.apache.org Cc: Harbs Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology Moving this off-line thread with Terry back to the mailing list with his permission: On 2/28/13 10:09 AM, Terry Corbet tcor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: B

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-27 Thread Bonan Li
. On Feb 27, 2013 10:48 PM, Devesh Mishra devesh.mis...@mastek.com wrote: Hi, Is there any future of Flex technology, as we can see that there are no big improvements are coming in Flex. According to today's scenario, Flex is only for desktop application and we are entering into mobile technology

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/27/13 10:02 PM, Bonan Li bona...@gmail.com wrote: Is there plan for Flex Mobile to support Windows 8 tablet? Today, Flex runs wherever Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash runs. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-27 Thread Devesh Mishra
Sorry Guys. It was not my intention to hurt in anyways. I am just worried about my future. -Original Message- From: Angelo Anolin [mailto:angelo.ano...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 February 2013 11:24 To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology I am unsure where you got

Re: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/27/13 10:17 PM, Bonan Li bona...@gmail.com wrote: We have an application built in Flex mobile. It can lunch the camera app on the mobile device, take pictures and save the pictures in SQLite. One of our clients shifts to Surface. However we are not able to deploy this app as a native

RE: Future of Flex technology

2013-02-27 Thread Greg Huddleston
: users@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Future of Flex technology On 2/27/13 10:17 PM, Bonan Li bona...@gmail.com wrote: We have an application built in Flex mobile. It can lunch the camera app on the mobile device, take pictures and save the pictures in SQLite. One of our clients shifts