[Laszlo-dev] What does this mean?

[Max Carlson]

Maybe OL should have a haXe backend?

Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org

On 2/6/10 10:34 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
> Check out what the haXe folks did: http://drawlogic.com/2009/06/19/haxe-on-the-iphone-with-hxcpp-flash-9-api-to-c-for-mobile/
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> And these videos are interesting as well:
> http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=116
> http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=118
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> On Feb 6, 2010, at 4:24 PM, P T Withington wrote:
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>> Which makes me wonder:  Should OpenLaszlo have an Objective-C back-end?
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>> On 2010-02-06, at 10:23, P T Withington wrote:
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>>> Digging into the labs link shows they are basically doing what we are doing:  compiling Flex apps to DHTML.  Hm...  (I don't think they are including their VM -- the FAQ says they are not.  So I suspect instead they are translating Flex classes to Objective-C and then using the Apple compiler.)
>>>
>>> On 2010-02-06, at 10:10, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> It sounds like the compile their Flash VM plus your as3 application into a
>>>> native app for
>>>> the iPhone. So it doesn't upset Apple, but also it is probably set to not be
>>>> able to load any
>>>> new swf
>>>> content over the network,  (unless there's some backdoor way to to load swf
>>>> files as data and then
>>>> convert them to executable code)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM, P T Withington<ptw at pobox.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Or is he just talking about this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
>>>>>
>>>>> which more likely is generating an AJAX version of your Flex app?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2010-02-06, at 09:29, P T Withington wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is Lynch saying they have shipped apps with embedded Flash VM?  I thought
>>>>> that was a direct violation of the App Store terms?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have shown that Flash technology is starting to work on these devices
>>>>> today by enabling standalone applications for the iPhone to be built on
>>>>> Flash. In fact, some of these apps are already available in the Apple App
>>>>> Store such as FickleBlox and Chroma Circuit. http://bit.ly/bIOlVu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Link: http://bit.ly/bIOlVu
>>>>>> Title: Open Access to Content and Applications (Adobe Featured Blogs)
>>>>>> Source:
>>>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html#comment-2137153#comment-2137153
>>>>>> See who is talking about this page: http://bit.ly/bIOlVu+
>>>>>> Brought to you via http://bit.ly
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Henry Minsky
>>>> Software Architect
>>>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>>
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