[osflash] Re: Breaking loose with XPML

[Aral Balkan]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm a big fan of how Flex handles this at compile time. Of course, you 
can run-time generation can have its benefits too (eg. customization of 
the ui via a CMS, etc.) but for most things I don't think that the 
runtime hit is worth it. Of course, it's hard to make general statements 
like this without knowing the demands of a specific application.

Aral

jeremy lu wrote:

>
> got one quick question regarding all these xml to ui thing,
> seems like xml is the tool used to describe the user interface, then 
> during compile time it would be converted to native java code, kind 
> like what flex do to mxml, so in the end what I got is a compiled 
> swf(or jar).
>
> but I also see several run-time xml2swf project (along the way enFlash 
> did) which has built-in xml2swf parser, take a xml and converted it to 
> swf just-in-time, it always made me wonder : why re-generate the UI 
> everytime the swf ran ? wouldn't it be too slow or requring too much 
> cpu resources ? really worth it ? <snip>