Starling 2

[teotigraphix]

Just curious as when Starling 2 rolls out and Feathers, will this be compatible then?

[IonSwitz]

I have started to look into rudimentary support for Starling 2.0, but it is not likely to be fully supported, no, unless I get help to implement it. To make it really good, I would have to spend time that I currently do not have.

I will do my best, however.

[teotigraphix]

Totally understand. It was more that I have some apps I am releasing that use feathers 100% and was looking into using the drawing api. But when feathers updates, he is requiring 2.0 so I guess I will have to wait.

If I knew more about the low level of starling I would gladly help get it going but I don't think I know enough to be of help right now.

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[22Round]

+1

[zenrobin]

We fell in love with this extension when we first found it. Used RoundedRectangles all over the place, and still use it to draw some interesting shapes dynamically.

But beyond that, we didn't touch the rest of the functionality. Perhaps a survey of what people use most is in order. That way, we can identify the best features of this extension that are wholesale missing from Starling.

Also, for what it's worth, we ended up having major lost context issues with RoundedRectangle. Couldn't find a reliable way around it (especially on android). So we went with a set of scale 9 oval textures instead. They don't take much texture space and can be scaled to whatever size necessary with minimal quality sacrifice. We have oval outlines too to replace the need for strokes. The textures are all white -- we use starling color tinting to customize as needed.

Would love to know how others are using the extension and whether there are other Starling workarounds (because IonSwitz is very busy!!)

[teotigraphix]

I ended up using the native Flash Graphics API and with Feathers I have invalidation. So in some of my really complex sequencers, I needed dynamic but "static" backgrounds of grids and such. So I just end up drawing all my new assets during a change for the component and create an atlas using Bitmap data draw(), then load those textures into Feather's Scale9 or Image components.

This seems to work really well performance wise, I am only drawing on invalidation. I just needed something to work when I switch to Feathers 3 and Starling 2.

[IonSwitz]

I am hoping that the problem with lost context issues now have been fixed. The Program cache wasn't being cleared out properly. If you have code that didn't work before stored away somewhere, please get the latest sources and try again.

+1 👍

Is there any change it will be compatible with the release V2 of Starling ?

Thanks a LOT! ! & Keep up the good work.

[OneHalf3544c]

+1

[IonSwitz]

Thanks for the support and desire to get this updated to 2.0, but I simply do not have the time. I don't know of anyone else of the maintainers of this extension who have the time either. This is very unfortunate, and I am really sorry about this.

[joefaron]

That's not good for me.. 👎

[joefaron]

For what it's worth.. was using it to also do rounded rectangles.. bye bye Shape()'s.

[matej-snivam]

+1

[varadig]

+1

[piratejet]

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