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Flex SDK 4.5 support?

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05-05-2011 08:10 AM
RoyceSimpson
Frequent Contributor
All clear to load up Flash Builder 4.5/SDK 4.5 for use with the API?
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RobertScheitlin__GISP
MVP Emeritus
Royce,

  I have built my public site using Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex SDK 4.5 and everything seem to be OK.
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BjornSvensson
Esri Regular Contributor
We are still in the process of verifying 4.5 support.  We should have a full report next week. If you want to be on the safe side, I'd recommend holding off.

As for the SDK:
As of now, the ArcGIS API for Flex seems OK with it, but in your applications there might be code that needs updating.  If you are using the source code of the Viewer, I would recommend you stick with 4.0 or 4.1 for now.

As for the IDE:
It should probably be OK with Flash Builder 4.5, assuming that you use an SDK version as described above.  But again, we are still in the process of testing and verifying.
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RoyceSimpson
Frequent Contributor
We are still in the process of verifying 4.5 support.  We should have a full report next week. If you want to be on the safe side, I'd recommend holding off.

As for the SDK:
As of now, the ArcGIS API for Flex seems OK with it, but in your applications there might be code that needs updating.  If you are using the source code of the Viewer, I would recommend you stick with 4.0 or 4.1 for now.

As for the IDE:
It should probably be OK with Flash Builder 4.5, assuming that you use an SDK version as described above.  But again, we are still in the process of testing and verifying.



I've come across a few issues using the 4.5 sdk against the 2.3.1 api and imported projects.  little things like .layerinfos.length is no longer recognized.  I'll hold off on the 4.5 sdk until the report/updated api.  Thanks for the info Bjorn.

Looks like if you don't use sdk 4.5, design mode is broken in Flash Builder 4.5.
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SylvainKerdreux
Emerging Contributor
We are still in the process of verifying 4.5 support.  We should have a full report next week. If you want to be on the safe side, I'd recommend holding off.

As for the SDK:
As of now, the ArcGIS API for Flex seems OK with it, but in your applications there might be code that needs updating.  If you are using the source code of the Viewer, I would recommend you stick with 4.0 or 4.1 for now.

As for the IDE:
It should probably be OK with Flash Builder 4.5, assuming that you use an SDK version as described above.  But again, we are still in the process of testing and verifying.



I try new flex SDK 4.5 and I find one problem with widget minimizing.
If I click on minimize icon I get this :
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/widgeti.png/

However If I use flex sdk 4.1 I do not have this problem.
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MehulChoksey
Esri Contributor
Royce,
>> I've come across a few issues using the 4.5 sdk against the 2.3.1 api and imported projects.
Could you list those.

>>little things like .layerinfos.length is no longer recognized.
Unable to reproduce this using 4.5.  Could you provide testcase for this?

>>Looks like if you don't use sdk 4.5, design mode is broken in Flash Builder 4.5.
Its more of Adobe disabling Design View in Flash Builder 4.5 for SDKs other than 3.6 and 4.5

Sylvain,
>> I find one problem with widget minimizing.
Thanks for reporting this.
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ColleenDixon
Emerging Contributor
Where can we post problems with ESRI behavior on mobile in flex 4.5?  We have an app we're packaging with Adobe AIR and we're having trouble with the pinch zoom functionality.  Can someone point me in the right direction for getting some information?  Our CEO is talking about scraping the flex project because of this single issue and I really, really don't want to do that...
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MehulChoksey
Esri Contributor
Where can we post problems with ESRI behavior on mobile in flex 4.5?  We have an app we're packaging with Adobe AIR and we're having trouble with the pinch zoom functionality.


You can post it here.
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ColleenDixon
Emerging Contributor
Thanks, Mehal.

First, for others, we've run into very few problems with agslib 2.3.1 and flex 4.5 sdk.  Our entire product line hasn't moved over yet but our mobile app contains a lot of our core functionality.  So far everything seems to be working just fine.  We had to change the parameters for our geometry services from graphics to geometries but other than that I don't think we've changed anything.

We're having trouble with the pinch zoom in an app we've created for android using flex 4.5 and agslib 2.3.1.  If you pinch slowly, it seems to interpret the movement as a pan until you let go, and then it zooms.  I noticed this also happens on the ESRI app in the market from the dev summit.  However the apple app works perfectly, I'm assuming since it's a native app.  Am I doing something wrong?  I tried setting mouseEnabled to false on the map, I also tried listening to the touch and mouse events and using event.preventDefault in the mouse move event if there were two touchpoints on the map but neither of these worked and I'm sure there must be an easier way.  If you need me to provide any code please let me know but I'm pretty sure you'll see the same functionality on a very simple app that just displays a map.

Also, are there any plans to include the magnifier functionality from silverlight in flex?  We have a customer chomping at the bit for this.

And finally, I'm using the legend component and I'd like to change the skin, whenever I create a new skin based on the legend and create as a copy of com.esri.ags.skins.LegendSkin I get an error that says "The source for the skin "{0}" cannot be found." Am I missing a skin library?

Thanks,
Colleen Dixon
3-GIS, LLC
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MehulChoksey
Esri Contributor
Thanks for your feedback.


We're having trouble with the pinch zoom in an app we've created for  android using flex 4.5 and agslib 2.3.1.  If you pinch slowly, it seems  to interpret the movement as a pan until you let go, and then it zooms.  

This issue is reproducible with 2.x of the api and with 4.x of the Adobe skd. not specifically tied to 2,3.1 and 4.5.
This issue is being worked upon.


Also, are there any plans to include the magnifier functionality from  silverlight in flex?  We have a customer chomping at the bit for this.

No. No plans for this one.


And finally, I'm using the legend component and I'd like to change the  skin, whenever I create a new skin based on the legend and create as a  copy of com.esri.ags.skins.LegendSkin I get an error that says "The  source for the skin "{0}" cannot be found." Am I missing a skin library?


see http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/28487-PopUps#10 for configuring your Flashbuilder to create copy of skins used in ArcGIS API for Flex.
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