Gerald Bauer
2004-11-30 05:37:02 UTC
Hello,
Robin Debreuil who recently joined the Xamlon team posted a blog
story titled "Feature set of our new SWF app development tool" that
talks about the upcoming XAML tool for Flash.
Robin writes:
It has been a while since I last posted -- we all have been working
full out to get this xaml/swf tool ready. It is shaping up to be very
cool though, imo at least. If you are unfamiliar with Xaml, it is the
tag based development environment for the next windows. It is
basically SVG + XUL + SMIL, and then the code is based on IL (allowing
you to program in any .Net language). So what we are doing is using
this markup/code to generate swfs as well as windows programs, which
means not only do you get tag based UI development, but you can
program in Visual Studio or other 'intellisense aware' types of IDEs
(with the stand alone swf compiler). Throw in that you can use the
language of you choosing, and run the same work natively on other
platforms, and it starts to be a pretty compelling way of developing I
think.
Source: http://blog.debreuil.com/archive/2004/11/24/476.aspx
To find out if anybody is interested in using a XAML and Flash
combo the Xamlon team has also posted an online survey. Questions include:
* Please rate the importance of the following to your work (1=not
important, 5=very important):
o Basic skinning (bg color, outline, etc.)
o Advanced skinning (button shapes, etc.)
o Dynamic skinning (adv skinning changeable at runtime)
o Flow layout (as in XUL/XAML)
o Resizable elements (not just stretching)
o Runtime code access of vector elements (bg fill, line width, etc.)
* When building your applications with markup, would you prefer a
framework that mapped more to Flash (e.g. movieclip, addListener) or
to .NET/Longhorn (e.g. Panel, Delegate)?
* When using markup, what percent of your work would you expect to
target swf and .NET? (The remainder being targeted to swf only.)
* If you were able to export the same file to a native exe and a
swf, what features would you consider "must haves" for a common subset?
More @ http://www.xamlon.com/company/surveys/flash
What's your take? Are you interested in seeing XAML for Flash? Is
XAML by definition for .NET only? Is XAML for Java next?
- Gerald
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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
XUL Alliance - http://xulalliance.org
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org
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Robin Debreuil who recently joined the Xamlon team posted a blog
story titled "Feature set of our new SWF app development tool" that
talks about the upcoming XAML tool for Flash.
Robin writes:
It has been a while since I last posted -- we all have been working
full out to get this xaml/swf tool ready. It is shaping up to be very
cool though, imo at least. If you are unfamiliar with Xaml, it is the
tag based development environment for the next windows. It is
basically SVG + XUL + SMIL, and then the code is based on IL (allowing
you to program in any .Net language). So what we are doing is using
this markup/code to generate swfs as well as windows programs, which
means not only do you get tag based UI development, but you can
program in Visual Studio or other 'intellisense aware' types of IDEs
(with the stand alone swf compiler). Throw in that you can use the
language of you choosing, and run the same work natively on other
platforms, and it starts to be a pretty compelling way of developing I
think.
Source: http://blog.debreuil.com/archive/2004/11/24/476.aspx
To find out if anybody is interested in using a XAML and Flash
combo the Xamlon team has also posted an online survey. Questions include:
* Please rate the importance of the following to your work (1=not
important, 5=very important):
o Basic skinning (bg color, outline, etc.)
o Advanced skinning (button shapes, etc.)
o Dynamic skinning (adv skinning changeable at runtime)
o Flow layout (as in XUL/XAML)
o Resizable elements (not just stretching)
o Runtime code access of vector elements (bg fill, line width, etc.)
* When building your applications with markup, would you prefer a
framework that mapped more to Flash (e.g. movieclip, addListener) or
to .NET/Longhorn (e.g. Panel, Delegate)?
* When using markup, what percent of your work would you expect to
target swf and .NET? (The remainder being targeted to swf only.)
* If you were able to export the same file to a native exe and a
swf, what features would you consider "must haves" for a common subset?
More @ http://www.xamlon.com/company/surveys/flash
What's your take? Are you interested in seeing XAML for Flash? Is
XAML by definition for .NET only? Is XAML for Java next?
- Gerald
-----------------------
Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
XUL Alliance - http://xulalliance.org
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org
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