Hi,
But I now want to get a few guys in my company using the tool on Windows and
we don't have at this time a budget to buy licneses for Adobe Flashbuilder or
InteliJ.
I wanted to use Eclipse which is fully opensource and free..
It's certainly is possible to use any editor and compile via
Hi,
How can I install Flex SDK on Linux?
The SDK should be able to be installed by hand by following the instructions in
the README. Linux is not currently a supported platform but we would certainly
like to support it.
It requires AIR SDK but Adobe stopped developing of AIR for Linux.
The
Hi,
A beginner question - in regard to Terry's point about the layering of the
SDKs over the last available Flex SDK from Adobe, I'm not quite clear how
additional capabilities in flash player are added to the apache flex
development environment.
Currently Apache Flex does use any of the
Hi,
Third, do you guys recommend we go with 4.7 for a production update, or do
you feel confident in the latest releases? Is there a quantitative measure of
confidence, ie code coverage, 97% passing, etc.
Forgot to say policy is all test must pass for it to be an official release.
Justin
Hi,
I assume you trying the build the installer project?
4. In the installer project, add ${APACHE_FLEX_UTILITIES_ROOT}/common/src as
a source path.
This refers to if you building the installer in Flash Builder, the installer
uses code form the common project
Hi,
Is there somewhere I can read the release notes for this version before I
download it?
It's a minor update to 4.9, there's still a few tasks to do update website,
installer etc.
And It's currently propagating through the mirrors - keep your eye on
Hi,
It may be theres an issue at this line unless your code you posted is
incomplete:
var grunner:ArrayCollection = //getting collection
After this line is there anything in the grunner array?
Add trace statements or run though a debugger to see what the issues is would
be the simple way to
Hi,
It looks like it is a player change between version 10 and 11.
Just out of interest - where the issue/swf version check? Is it in the Flash
Player or in the compiler?
Thanks,
Justin
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex
4.9.1!
Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework for
building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on
all major browsers, desktops and devices (including
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex
4.9.1!
Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework for
building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on
all major browsers, desktops and devices (including
HI,
It looks like the particular mirror site has the files corrupted.
Do we need to tell INFRA?
Justin
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
Hi,
why is AIR 3.4 included and not AIR 3.6?
At the time 4.9 was released AIR 3.6 had not been released and 4.9.1 was a
minor update that didn't include 3.5.
Did these feature comes later, or is these also a probleme with the rights
by adobe?
It's expected that AIR 3.6 will be included in
Hi,
My suggestion for German:
invalidCharPostcodeError=Der 'postcode' enthält ungültige Zeichen.
wrongLengthPostcodeError=Der 'postcode' hat die falsche Länge.
wrongFormatPostcodeError=Der 'postcode' hat das falsche Format.
incorrectFormatPostcodeError=Der 'postcode format string' ist
Hi,
Well, I think it's free if you are a PMC member -
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.jsp
You just have to be a committer is my understanding. There are a few other
companies that also support committers of open source projects with free
software eg Microsoft offers MSDN subscriptions
Hi,
Release Candidate 5 is now out.
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flex/installer/2.5/RC5/binaries/
We'd appreciate anyone who can lend a hand to help test it.
There are only minor text changes from RC5.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
When we received the JIRA bugbase from Adobe it contained a lot of old
unresolved issues from earlier versions of the SDK.
I've gone though and marked some of these issue with easytest if they would
be easy to test and easyfix if I think they would be easy to fix or patch.
You can see the
Hi,
They were asked to download 4.7, which doesn't contain the Worker class by
default, but is a combination IDE/SDK.
That was added in Flash Player 11.4 so that's the minimum version required.
The script sounds helpful, we are on macs.
Could be scary as it would involve using the command
Hi,
Completed, ran well. One minor issue that setFlashPlayerVersion is missing a
sed command to update flex-sdk-description.xml.
I assume you mean terms of what Flash Player version it's using?
Justin
Hi,
I've worked remotely on many Flex projects over many years (since Flex 1.5).
In all probability these will be remote developers so I'm thinking of
setting up VMWare VM machines with an IDE, Tomcat server, etc so the
developer won't have to spend time with setup, is this a good approach?
Hi,
We're working towards the next release of Apache Flex SDK.
Are there any issues with the current Apache Flex 4.9.1 SDK that we're not
aware of? Or any issues that you would really like to see fixed? If so please
bring them to our attention on the dev list or vote for them in JIRA.[1]
If
Hi,
- Is Falcon the default compiler used for mxml apps in 4.9.1 SDK?
No.
- if not - what is needed to set it up as the default compiler?
For it to fully support compiling MXML and binding.
- How close is it to be used in production?
It has made some progress but not sure how far it
Hi,
It looks like the issue may be related to TLF have you checked out the TLF
repo? If so what is the TLF directories name? Did you set up a TLF_HOME
environment variable?
And perhaps a silly question but have you switched to the develop branch?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Used this in the past to good effect.
https://github.com/People-in-action/eskimo
Justin
Hi,
This is asked due to its dependency of the regular stage display list, and
inability to take advantage of stage3d performance.
Depends on your application - not all applications need stage3d, if you writing
a 3d game then sure but your typical Flex application probably doesn't need it.
Hi,
I think that one applies to dynamic columns, correct me if I'm wrong.
The 4.10 develop branch has a few fixes that might solve that issue. Do you
know if there a JIRA raised for this issue?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Are there any specific plans on when Air 3.5 or later will be packaged with a
release of flex? Are there any specific dates when this might be done?
It's already be done in the develop branch and will be in the next SDK release.
The new installer will let you select the version of FP and
Hi,
I'm fairly new to the list, I've noticed several dev emails from the dev
list, more notably I've been following Justin's updates and notes on
getting flex better prepped for the *nix platform.
You can take the windows or OSX binary, run the (possible incorrectly named)
Hi,
I'm building mobile apps. In fact, my customer uses the same AIR app on
Windows PCs as well as Windows tablets and iPads. This is why, like you
said, I need AIR 3.
Currently your only option is going to be develop on Windows or OSX for mobile
apps. There's not much Apache can do about
Hi,
Do I need to checkout the installer project from SVN (any particular branch,
rev ?)
Use the develop branch, either get it form github:
https://github.com/apache/flex-utilities/tree/develop
Or from the git repo directly:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flex-utilities.git
The code
Hi,
OK after running into a minor AIR install issue[1], the installer compiles and
runs on Linux. The initial drop boxes to select the version of AIR/FP are not
working so we'll need to fix that.
Thanks,
Justin
1. Needed to provide symbolic links to libgnome-keyring.so
Hi,
So why do I have to give both the AIR and Flex SDK locations ?
Good question - I've no idea why.
Justin
I had no issues with 2.6 so not sure what the issue is there.
On Jun 19, 2013 11:37 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala bigosma...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Tom Chiverton t...@rachaelandtom.info
wrote:
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:00:53 OmPrakash Muppirala wrote:
Hi,
So the SDKs are just the latest released ones from either Apache or Adobe (in
the case of AIR), unzipped.
The SDK needs to be a working 4.9 or 4.9.1 SDK, not just a downloaded zip.
There's a bit of a chicken and egg issue here, so either copy a working SDK off
another machine or run
Hi,
A little out of date but still usable - have you seen scale nine?
(http://www.scalenine.com)
Justin
Hi,
Some text fields don't really support underlines but just pretend by drawing a
line. Might need some minor code adjustments???
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33561
Justin
Hi,
Any chance you can supply the change as a patch file? (git diff can produce
this)
Justin
HI,
ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property renderMode on
flash.display.NativeWindowInitOptions.
at spark.components::Window/setupWindowInitOptions()
[/Users/justinmclean/Documents/ApacheFlexSDK/frameworks/projects/airspark/src/spark/components/Window.as:1777]
at
Hi,
How do I update this to the latest AIR (3.7) release ? There are two
downloads offered on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/air-sdk-download.html
for instance, and I'm not clear which one I should be using... It'd help it
Adobe wrote the words 'Apache' on their somewhere...
Use the one
Hi,
But shouldn't the increase size be on the RSL itself instead of the
compiled app/modules?
I had assumed that you were not using RSLs.
It may be related to version of Flash Player and the size of player global swc?
Try adding a -size-report option to the MXMLC that should tell you what
HI,
I have created a JIRA ticket.
I think Om mean raise a JIRA about the bug in accordion layout.
But what do you mean with providing a patch?
A code diff file fixing the according layout issue - that's if you know what
the problem is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(Unix)
Git can
Hi,
VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of DataList in mx.data.DataList.
A quick google search seems to imply that this sort of error shows up when you
compile swfs from different versions of the SDK together. But is interesting
that it was working on 4.9.1, what version of flash (or
Hi,
We're currently voting on Apache Flex RC 4.10.0 RC3.
http://markmail.org/message/n3rqs7kkytwppy4n
Please download it, try it out and send us feedback. You are also welcome to
vote in the thread above.
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flex/sdk/4.10.0/rc3/
The RC can be installed by
Hi,
Is any one noticed the select language dropdown in the installer.by default
its showing the deutsch as selected language.
What OS and language/locale are you running it on?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
I can confirm this for installer versions 2.5.4 and 2.6.0, both running on
Mac OS X 10.6.8. The default selected language is German, however
everything is in English.
Sounds like a bug - thanks!
An observation here's that the main screen is not fully localized, all
string prompting the
Hi,
How can I realize an MVC like architecture by using Flex/AS3 only. Are there
any examples out there?
Basically AS classes for your model, loosely coupled MXML component dispatching
events for your views, data binding on the model to update views and your
application or an event bus as
Hi,
Not 100% sure what you want but here's a very flexible state machine I wrote a
while ago.
https://github.com/justinmclean/ActionScript-State-Machine
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback.
- Leaves a lot of trace statements in debug mode. Maybe this is on
purpose as it's an experimental component, but it's rather annoying.
Annoying no more - I've just commented them out.
- Is not part of spark manifest (s), or any one manifest,
Hi,
We're currently voting on Apache Flex RC 4.10.0 RC4.
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flex/sdk/4.10.0/rc4/
Please download it, try it out and send us feedback. You are also welcome to
vote in the vote thread on the development list.
This RC will shortly be able to be installed by the
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Flex 4.10.0 and Apache Flex IDE Installer 2.6.
Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework
for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy
consistently on all major browsers, desktops
Hi,
On the page http://flex.apache.org/installer.html, the installer graphic
still says version 4.9.1. Shouldn't that be 4.10.0 now?
It's been updated it may just be cached by your browser.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Being active on the mailing list, submitting and fixing bug and becoming an
Apache Flex committer because of that could be considered a certification of
sorts and probably far more valuable to potential employer than a paper
certification.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
The new spark components includes:
Alert
Callout and CalloutButton
ColorPicker
DataNavigator and DataNavigatorGroup
MenuBar
Menu
ProgressBar
New containers include:
Accordion
HDivider/VDivider and HDividerGroup/VDividerGroup
Navigator/NavigatorGroup
New Layouts
Accordion
Carousel
Coverflow
HI,
Both FlashBuilder 4.6 and 4.7 with work with Apache Flex 4.10 and AIR is the
range of 2.6 to 3.8. It's not been fully tested on all version so you may run
into an issue or two, but the latest version 3.8 should be fine.
Simplest way to select the version of AIR is to use the installer, but
Hi,
You shouldn't run into any significant issues. Have you:
a) Monkey patched the SDK?
b) Use framework RSLs?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
1 - Is there any websites or blogs where I can find the new components into
these recent Apache flex 4.10 release .
Take a look a the RELEASE_NOTES. More documentation on the new components
would be desirable and we're looking for people to help out there.
2 - is there any performance
Hi,
That's always a risk when we add new features.
Wasn't that change reversed and the signature of removeItem still identical to
before?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
The Apache Flex users and development forums provide an alternative to using
the users and development mailing lists and can be found here:
http://s.apache.org/flex-dev-forum
http://s.apache.org/flex-users-forum
Each forum is a mirror of the similarly named Apache Flex mailing list. All
Hi,
now when i build i see charts_4.10.0.0.swf tossed into the app's modules dir.
Not following this thread closely but how are you building? The swf (or rather
swc) should be charts_4.10.0.20130820.swc for the 4.10.0 release.
Justin
Hi,
me compile the SDK? funniest thing i've heard so far today ;-)
:-)
no i used the installer i'm pretty sure its release but since both alex
you asked, i do i check?
Not foolproof but take a look at flex-sdk-description.xml as it will have the
date in it.
4.10.0 release should look
Hi,
They changed the date by 3 weeks or so. So all dates in that range are
affected. Might happen during the fall back time period too.
From memory I think FP has a single set of dates for daylight saving time (per
locale) and not a database year by year so has issues with DST depending on
Hi,
I moved from flex 4.5 using EmbedAsCFF= true for an embed font.
the css is being loaded on runtime.
How is the CSS being loaded at run time? I assume it's been compiled into a
swf? Can you share thw code showing how that swf is loaded?
Thanks,
Justin
HI,
GridColumnHeaderGroupLayout.as is missing in apache flex 4.10
I've raised an issue for it and we'll try and get that fixed for Apache Flex
4.11.0.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33775
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Apache Flex 4.10 supports advanced telemetry, there's no need to use any script
and/or air app to enable advanced telemetry.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
In the RELEASE_NOTES, I dont see the actual compiler option to be added.
Will just adding -advanced-telemetry to compiler options enable Scout
profiling capability to Apache Flex 4.10 apps?
Yes or -advanced-telemetry=true.
It can also be specified in the flex config file and also be set
Hi,
This may be been fixed by this:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33789
Any chance you could provide some sample code that shows the issue?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Is it possible to set a password for advanced telemetry via an ANT build
script?
No sorry password protection for advanced telemetry wasn't implemented in
Apache Flex 4.10.
You can raise a JIRA for it if you want, I didn't know if anyone would actually
use/need that feature.
Thanks,
Hi,
Hard to say but my guess would be that it would make very little if any
difference in performance, your bottlenecks are likely elsewhere. GIve it a go
with Scout and advanced telemetry would be the best way to find out.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
The following Flex Compiler arguments cause almost all Flash Builder
Preferences to be ignored
It has come on the list (and elsewhere) before a couple of times, but I'm not
sure anyone has any idea to why FB would be effected in this way when using the
-advanced-telemetry flag.
Have
Hi,
As far as I can tell it seems to only happen with FB 4.7 and not FB 4.6 so it's
more likely to be a FB issue than an SDK issue.
Justin
Hi,
It looks like it's a FB 4.7 issue, the advanced telemetry flag has no issues
with FB 4.6.
I'm not sure what Apache Flex can do to fiix this in FB 4.7.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
I've just published Apache Flex 4.11.0 release candidate 1 and this will now
show up as the last option in the Apache Flex installer.
There are a few new things that would be nice for people to test out, including:
- New mobile datagrid
- New 120 and 640 dpi skins
- Many datagrid
Hi,
If the app is online you can log to a remote server (via HTTP), means you need
to add log calls in a lot of places (and for uncaught exceptions). Used this on
a few projects and found it very useful.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
1. My understanding in reading about Scout is that the debugger version is
only required for memory profiling. Thus, I can use the non-debugger version
to get accurate timing information
Correct.
2. What's the best way to switch between debugger and non-debugger flash
player
Looks like you have created 4 jira issues mind marking 3 as duplicates?
Hi,
Using a tool like Fiddler or Charles reverse proxy can tell you a lot. Chrome,
Safari and Firebug also have developer tools that let you look at the the how
many connections you have, order then occur and and time taken for various
parts of the request and response. In Chrome just view the
HI,
Looking for a way to may it easy for user to get help when they need it. I'm
visioning creating a User Guide that's a PDF file, and include links
throughout the Flex app that point to specific locations in the PDF
document. When the user clicks a link in the Flex app, the PDF
Hi,
Anyone have a sample implementation of encrypting a string in Flex and
decoding it in .NET?
This might help:
http://code.google.com/p/as3crypto/
Justin
Hi,
it would be better if you did a one way hash on the client and stored hashed
value in a database
+1 and another +1 if you salt that hash.
However using a modern GPU it's possible to check about 100 MD5 million hashes
a second so it's becoming less and less secure.
Justin
Hi,
I could also run the provided sample (on OSX) with no issues.
Can you place a breakpoint on line 492 (dateChar = valueString.charAt(i);) and
see what noMonths, monthNames and valueString contain.
it should be 12, an array of month names and something like 10/10/2013.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
I downloaded a tourDeFlexMobile created by someone on this list not too long
ago...Its pretty nice.
It shows promise and I'm sure there's other people who would contribute to it
once it was donated/licensing sorted out.
If the real does get donated we could merge the code for the new
Hi,
There's a bug in FB that if you turn advance telemetry on it stops auto
completion from working. Is this the issue?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Where is this setting? I'm using FB 4.7 on Mac. Currently, in one of my
projects, one of my included libraries is not showing autocomplete but
autocomplete still works for the SDK classes.
You normally add it via -advanced-telemetry=true in the compiler options. The
above sound like a
Hi,
Works for me on Safari (6.0.5) FP (11.9.900.117). Not sure what the issue is
sorry.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
I'm not a lawyer but I would assume that no licence (except the one you licence
your application under if any) would be required as the user would of already
agreed to the Flash Player license when it was installed. [1]
Thanks,
Justin
1.
Hi,
Plz Tell me how to conver integer value to currency format in apache flex .
Use the CurrancyFormatter format method, it takes Numbers or a Strings. Ints
will be converted to Number when passed.
http://flex.apache.org/asdoc/spark/formatters/CurrencyFormatter.html
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
This process i used it but in datagrid this value not sorted
according number but it sorted according string then data is not correct.
You can set the sorftSompareFunction on the data grid column. If you post some
sample code (or a link to it) it may be easier for people to help you.
Hi,
Works fine for me:
var df:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter()
df.formatString=-MM-DD HH:NN:SS.#;
trace(df.format(new Date()));
Can you provide a code sample that doesn't work.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
The bug is in DateTimeFormatter
And it use native flash player class to format the date, so the bug is actually
a flash player bug - not much we can do about it.
My advice is to just use mx:DateFormatter as that does what you need.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
A new release of Apache Flex is a few months away what JIRA issues would you
like to see fixed and what new features or improvments would you like to see?
You can get an indication of progress by looking at the latest version of the
release notes in GitHub.
Hi,
Might be better to raise this in JIRA.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
seems to work when i call gc() on close
You're assuming that memory is garbage collected frequently rather then when
required and that may not be the case. You're better off using the Flash
Profiler or Scout to check for memory leaks. There should be no need to call
gc() in production
Hi,
Also, implement something like removeAllListeners to a base class such as
UIComponent
Sadly not 100% possible without Flash Player changes.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Was just looking at some of the JIRA filters and thought I would share some
stats.
Since donation we have resolved 1490 JIRA issues!
Since the 4.8 release we have fixed 1047 JIRA issues.
Since the 4.9 release we have fixed 396 JIRA issues.
Since the 4.10 release we have fixed 164 JIRA
Hi,
A guess but think you may need:
-locale=en_US,de_DE
Justin
Hi,
Considering the fact that spark is an efficient equivalent component set to
be used in place of halo, I was curious to know if anyone knows if FLEX 3
(mx component set, halo) will continue to be supported in FLEX 5 and beyond
(for backward compatibility)?
MX will continue to be
Hi,
May you please give me little idea ,how to open a jira ticket .
You need to create an account and raise an issue here
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX
This might help as well:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Bug+Reports
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
And so I need your help, everyone in the Flex community.
I can certainly review + proofread etc. Also being the release manager for
several versions I can help out with what new, what been fixed etc
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
You'll do fine, Justin. As long as you're willing to put in the time to read
and
double-read the entire book (usually as it's written chapter by chapter)
OK I'm in - but that shouldn't stop other people from wanting to help out as
well.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi,
Well, I just heard back from O'Reilly. And unfortunately they're not
interested
in publishing an Apache Flex book of any kind
While it would of been nice to have them as a publisher (print book,
distribution, marketing etc etc) do we actually need a publisher?
In this day and age it's
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