[Flexible] Is it just me or do the options under File not work at all?

[John Grden]

Hey Christopher!  thanks for asking - FLEXible is in Alpha right now and
those features don't work yet because the app needs a wrapper like apollo or
zinc to deal with the file IO stuff.

However, you *can* copy and paste mxml into the source view and FLEXible
will, for the most part, render it for you.  HOwever, it can only handle
basic stuff.  IE: it doesn't deal with states and it won't retain any code
beyond the components it's aware of.

My first beta release is going to be basic MXML building with emphasis on
the tools for creating the components - I'm trying to make it a bit more
intuitive than FB2 for creating components and dealing with them at design
time.  I was struggling with the idea of trying to allow people to load in
existing MXML and maintain it, and I've decided to put that as a secondary
priority behind getting base functionality working.  Base functionality
would be adding all components and flushing them out to work properly with
any GUI enhancments as well as saving/loading and any other file IO stuff.

I was really hoping that apollo would be available by that time (first part
of 2007).

If you'd like to join up and help implement these features, that'd be
AWESOME!

Let me know, and we'll go from there,

John


On 12/4/06, Christopher Henderson <cdhenderson at cox.net> wrote:
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>  I downloaded your latest copy of the program (November 20th I believe was
> the date) and although I found a good bit of the design features amazing,
> the options under the file menu did not work at all. By those I mean
> File|Open, File|Save, and even File|Exit.
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> Now at first glance this might seem a bit nitpicky but, if Flexible is
> going to be viable as a tool for managing and editing the MXML files in Flex
> then doesn't it need to be able to load preexistent files and doesn't it as
> well need to be able to save the designs?
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> Now it could quite easily be something I'm doing and if so then please
> tell me and I'll be more than glad to utilize the program more properly and
> efficiently.
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> And if not then I would also be quite glad and willing to aid in the
> assistance of getting those features work, at least to the best of my
> ability.
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> Thanks for allowing my rant and thanks in advance for your response,
>
> Christopher
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