Axiis – Beta 1 Released
Axiis Beta 1
We have just recently released the Beta 1 version of Axiis last week.
This version of Axiis is a much more stable and cleaner build than the Alpha we released back in May. There have been performance optimizations, refactoring of our core classes, and lots of little bug fixes. We have also added a couple new examples to our examples section.
I am personally using Axiis now in several commercial projects, and I would feel comfortable recommending it to others if you are a on the more advanced side of the Flex development spectrum.
11. October 2009 at 09:49
Hi,
I loved your talk at Max, which I just watched online. I wanted to experiment with Axiis, but either I am missing something very basic in the installation, or your files are missing something… the default config out-of-the-box refers to an axiis.swc that I can’t seem to find in your libraries? It’s located in mvadani’s documents:
path=”C:/Documents and Settings/mvandani/My Documents/Code/axiis/svn/branches/development/axiis/bin/axiis.swc”
Linking to Axiis_Library.swc alone doesn’t seem to help.
Thanks,
Lynn
11. October 2009 at 12:21
@Lynn,
This setting is an artifact of Flex Builder’s archive process. The “missing” .swc can be found in the http://axiis.googlecode.com/files/Axiis_Examples_Beta_1.0.zip “libs” folder. Just remove the errant .swc reference from your Flex Project properties and make sure you include your “libs” folder as a library reference and I think you should be good.
12. October 2009 at 09:54
Tom,
Your talk at MAX was fantastic, and I think Axiis and Degrafa are perfect for the type of advanced visualization projects we have internally. The challenge we face is that all projects going forward for us will be based on FB4 (with FC for UI mockups). We recently downloaded degrafa and Axiis and are running into several challenges (mostly degrafa features) getting things to work. Do you know when degrafa/Axiis might be released for FB4? If soon, we’ll probably wait on the release.
12. October 2009 at 10:01
@Mike,
Thanks for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed the presentation.
I am very curious what issues you are running into with Degrafa/Axiis inside FB4. As I know both the Degrafa and Axiis team are very committed to having both work seamlessly inside FB 4. If you can let us know what issues you are running into I can try to get some answers on time-frames for resolution.
12. October 2009 at 10:37
Tom, Thank you for the reply. I’ll pull together a quick summary of what we’re testing and running into and email to you offline…
9. January 2010 at 00:14
Hi, I seem to be having some problems getting Axiis to work on my computer. I keep getting a null reference pointer on the dataset. Also on the examples it says the library cannot be opened. I followed some tutorials and I think I may just be looking past something. How can I get it to work?
Thanks, Darren
26. January 2010 at 07:55
Hi,
I did a lot of search for such open-source frameworks in flex and this is the only one I could find, thanks a lot for sharing your ideas with all of us.
I was planing to develop a dynamic organization chart, do you think the Axiis beta release is a good point to start of for developing an Org chart component?
Thanks,
Aroujo
26. January 2010 at 18:43
@Aroujo,
Yes you could use Axiis to create your own org-chart with. But, you would ultimately be creating your own hierarchal layout algorithm, which we have examples of, just not in an org chart format. The Prefuse Flare project has layouts like that already built in to their framework, but it is a completely different approach than Axiis.
26. January 2010 at 21:05
Tom, Thanks a lot for the reply.
27. January 2010 at 08:20
Do you think its technically possible to combine the layout algorithm of the Flare with the superior UI of the Axiis framework to create an Org chart?
27. January 2010 at 08:29
@Aroujo, Axiis and Flare are very different in the way they are implemented. Axiis was designed to make it easy (or at least less hard) to create layout algorithms purely via MXML. Flare is much more action script focused. As you may know there are already some open source components out there that do create org structures, or network diagrams. if that is really your only goal, you might be better off starting with one of those and just adjusting the styles/look to meet your needs.
16. February 2010 at 07:46
Hi Tom,
Great work with Axiis.
I am a Flex developer and currently experimenting with Flex charting components and Axiis.
I think the VAxis computes the number of ticks incorrectly.
When running the ColumnChart example, on the vertical axis, ticks are marked at intervals 0,4,8,13,17,21….
Clearly this is wrong. I would expect it to be 0,4,8,12,16…
Is this a known bug?
Please advise.
Thanks Sachin