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From: Gordon Smith <gosmith@adobe.com>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:13:03 -0700
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> only Strings. I always found it strange to have Embeds and ClassReference=
s in .properties files.

Nobody ever needs to localize an embedded image?

- Gordon


-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Eismann [mailto:bortsen@googlemail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:47 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Asset / i18n resource management improvements

Hi Alex,

> IMO, something like an "R" class should not be put into the compiler=20
> or the IDE. =A0The compiler should be as framework agnostic as possible. =
=A0
> It is probably possible to create a set of classes that do what R does.

maybe I misuderstand you here, but to get compile time code hinting in an I=
DE and compile time checking for resource accesses, I wonder how something =
like R should be generated then if not by the compiler?

> How many of you use non-String resources? =A0A String-only resource=20
> system can be so much better optimized than what we have now. =A0I would=
=20
> love to phase out the current ResourceManager subsystem and replace it=20
> with something much smaller and faster.

only Strings. I always found it strange to have Embeds and ClassReferences =
in .properties files.

Dirk.