Theme development - ie: how to develop theme swcs and swfs and how to use them in a project. Its a great feature of Flex from a design point of view but there's not a lot of good source material on the subject (or at least - I had trouble finding good sources).
Not long ago I worked on this intensely for a desktop application in AIR . If you're interested in including this subject in the book, and if I can help in any way - especially pointing out pitfalls like not including embedded font registry somewhere ;-) - please let me know. Cheers, Mick On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Joseph Balderson <n...@joeflash.ca> wrote: > I'm starting this thread so people can list their "wish list" items for the > upcoming Apache Flex book. The other thread is specifically for discussion on > the status of the possible O'Reilly book. > > This book may not be an O'Reilly book (we'll see), but I'll definitely be > writing an Apache Flex book of some sort for one of the tech major publishing > houses this year. I'm modelling the book on the "Programming Adobe Flex" > series > of books by O'Reilly, so if you have the Flex 3 or 4 one, that's the template, > with a few differences in topic coverage. > > As I mentioned in the other thread, there will be an emphasis on the Spark > portion of the framework, and what's been updated since Adobe Flex 4.6, i.e. > emphasis on the Apache side of Flex, rather than going over everything, > considering the wealth of information already published on Flex 3 and 4. > Although there will be a rudimentary overall coverage of things, so this won't > be an "upgrade" book. There will be a few advanced nuggets tucked in here and > there to keep it interesting, but for the most part it will be a > beginner-to-intermediate book. There will be some coverage of IDEs (so pls > tell > me what your fav IDEs are) and plugin/desktop/mobile deployment strategies > (i.e. > Flash & AIR), but we won't be getting into exotics like HaXe or HFCD or > Alchemy, > or advanced topics like Ant and Maven integration. Space will probably rule > out > getting into 3rd party MVC frameworks, which might be a blessing in disguise > considering how many have been orphaned in the last few years (I'll leave that > topic to blog posts). As far as FlexJS goes, it's still very early days, and > things could change from now till publication, so there probably won't be much > about it other than to talk about it in the introduction. When FlexJS is in > Alpha, it will probably warrant its own micro-book. > > > For future reference, wish list ideas on "what I had to learn the hard way > when > learning Flex" is more in line with topics to be found in this book. Very > specific applications such as printing from flex, would be better suited to a > cookbook-style book, which this isn't. But list them anyways at the bottom of > your wish list separately, and I'll see what I can do with the space > available. > > > > Thanks all, > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca > Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book
