:-)<br><br>Open source build chain is also a mandatory point for me.<br><br>Adobe open sourced its ActionScript3 compiler, more detail on<br>
<a href="http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK">http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK</a><br><br>On Igenko ( <a href="http://code.google.com/p/igenko/">http://code.google.com/p/igenko/</a> ), a Flex Content Management & eCommerce open source project (I am the project leader), we build the project with a totally open source build chain.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Christopher Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 05:31:22PM +0100, Bouiaw wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I would like to have your advice about implementing openlayers in<br>
> ActionScript3. From my point of view, combining OpenLayers class model,<br>
> ActionScript3 power, AMF3 data services efficiency and Flash vector and 3D<br>
> capabilities may be very exiting.<br>
><br>
> I have seen that someone created a project with this goal on Google Code (<br>
> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/asopenlayers/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/asopenlayers/</a>), I tried to contact him witout<br>
> success.<br>
><br>
> I would like to know if someone has began to work on this on your side ?<br>
> What do you think about an AS3 port of openlayers ?<br>
<br>
</div></div>"Dear gods and powers, please help us!" :) (I'm not a Flash person, can<br>
you tell?)<br>
<br>
More seriously, I have no specific Flash knowledge, but I do know that<br>
OpenLayers was designed pretty extensively around the HTML DOM and<br>
access to it. I know this specifically because of the pieces of the HTML<br>
DOM I've had to reimplement in JS to do spidermonkey based testing :)<br>
<br>
Looking through the 'asopenlayers' project, I see that AS3 looks much<br>
*less* like Javascript than AS1 (which I've actually written, and<br>
tested, with just a JS interpreter). I believe that AS3 also can't be<br>
built with Open Source tools: it requires a proprietary build chain.<br>
<br>
So, I expect that a translation of OpenLayers into AS3 would be more of<br>
a "learning from OpenLayers, implementing in Flash". It seems *possible*<br>
(Though I don't know how possible) that AS1 would actually allow the<br>
usage of some level of shared code; and I would be supportive of finding<br>
ways to use OpenLayers code in more ways. An AS3 project is -- based on<br>
my limitedk nowledge/browsing at this time -- much less interesting to<br>
me personally than an AS1-based project.<br>
<br>
In any case, it would be good to have some active collaboration with the<br>
project. :)<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Christopher Schmidt<br>
MetaCarta<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>