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From: Stakesoft <mail@stakesoft.com>
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Subject: RE: Apache Flex GUI Designer tools
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Technical issues aside I suspect there a good few of us that rely on design=
 views (and we are not all noobs). Many are supporting not having a DV as t=
hey don't use it and that's fine for them but a bit of a disaster for other=
s. There are IDE's with DV's and those without - the best in my mind all ha=
ve a DV.

If Adobe are not taking care of the SDK or the DV it leaves much less advan=
tage over other free software.

Non DV developers at Adobe please try and understand how important a DV is =
to the many who use it. I wish 4.7 onwards all the best but it will just ab=
out unusable for me.

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]=20
Sent: 02 October 2012 17:12
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Apache Flex GUI Designer tools


On 10/2/12 8:55 AM, "Sebastian Mohr" <masuland@gmail.com> wrote:


>=20
> @Adobe ... what's wrong with continuing building GUI
> designer tools for Apache Flex? Is that really something
> that is not worth investing into? You already created those
> tools. So, why not sharing some of your expertise with the
> community, and, not locking your code in the archives of
> Adobe history?
>=20
This has been discussed before.  Design View is highly dependent on a Flex
SDK version.  It is not practical for Adobe to maintain DV in FB now that
SDKs are coming from Apache.

I think the DV code is flawed for that reason and some others.  It is
probably better to simply start over.  AFAIK, it is "just" an Eclipse
plug-in. =20

If figuring out some aspect of the plug-in turns out to be difficult, I can
try to see if there are some pieces we could donate, but the assessment fro=
m
the owners of the code is that there isn't much that is re-usable.


--=20
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui