Adobe AIR + jQuery support in WeBuilder 2008?

[raymond]

Hello,

Just letting you guys know that AIR 1.0 and jQuery 1.2.3 is now available and stable.

Now that Adobe AIR 1.0 is out I would like to see support for the AIR SDK in WeBuilder 2008. I would love to be able to compile my javascript apps into a real desktop application. Debugging features would also be great! See www.adobe.com/products/air/

I would also love to see auto-complete support for the jQuery 1.2.3 library. See www.jquery.com

To All Developers:
If you're creating web applications and you are not using jQuery then dont know what you're missing! I have recently started using jQuery and it has cut my development time in half.

PS. Keep up the great work you're doing Karlis! Can't wait to see WeBuilder 2008

[joemichaud]

I have finally discovered jQuery as well and I am a convert. What an outstanding framework!

[multifarious]

the problem, methinks, with supporting (a) framework is that, as a tools developer, you shouldn't/can't be biased towards just one framework.
Supporting jQuery only wouldn't be fair towards developers that use Mootools, Dojo, Prototype or any of the other frameworks.

And it's really hard, if not impossible, to say which of these frameworks is the best to support since they all have their strengths and weaknesses. I've done a little research into this for my work two months ago and the results were ambigous to say the least.

So, what we actually should be asking for: how hard would it be to provide us, the users, with some way of adding support for our chosen framework (which could also include the inevitable roll-your-own framesets). I'd imagine it would be something to do with adding sets to the object browser (the files dealing with this don't seem to be too hard to grasp).

[Emulman]

i use normally the Zend Framework 1.5 and it's the most powerful of PHP frameworks: a series of PHP classes which do everything, to aMVC site to easily print a PDF document, from rendering HTML tags in AJAX to use google apps online...it would be nice to add support for this for example in object browser to select easily one the thousands of methods or properties of Zend Framework.

[garethjmsaunders]

What I think I'd prefer to see is either

1. The ability to create, export and import your own auto-complete settings so that users to create their own framework specific tools.

and / or

2. The ability to create, export and import your own library of code within the Library. At the moment it would appear that you can only backup the Library in its entirety rather than on a folder/sub-folder basis.

This way someone could create, for example, a jQuery or Zend autocomplete 'module' that others could import to help them out when coding with their chosen framework.

This way it wouldn't be built-into WeBuilder, for example, by default but could be an optional add-in or extension.

Gareth

[llbbl]

codeigniter is a great PHP framework.

[DvE]

Is there any development going in the direction of supporting frameworks (by letting you choose a 'library directory' for instance which would hold zend framework or codeigniter or other frameworks) so that you can have code completion of those frameworks?

[garethjmsaunders]

I've been looking into the Aptana editor (http://www.aptana.com/) for some development at work and its support for Adobe AIR, JavaScript, PHP and jQuery is very impressive -- the auto-complete for those languages/frameworks is almost instantaneous. These are downloaded into the application as plug-ins.

Something similar for WeBuilder would certainly be welcome. At the moment I've created my own library of code snippets which is useful but not quite so helpful as auto-complete.

Gareth