Templates in CC - some things to think about

Hello Animate Team and thank you for the new version!  Paths work nicely.
Templates:
I am thinking that template creation needs some enhancement. I wish I had noticed that before!
You have to give templates a different name otherwise you will not be able to save it (already mentioned)
When you make a template, the folder is created in your current folder. It would be nice to have a choice of path so you can store all your templates in the same place
If you added extra folders for js and css files, these are not created in the new template folder. It would be nice to maybe get a checklist that would allow us to check if there are extra folders and if they should be included in the template folder.

Curious about your experience. When I do a Save as Template, it gives me a choice of folders. Or maybe I haven't played with it enough to see what you're talking about. Is it something other than the folder where the template file is saved? No problem keeping the same file name here (with template extension of course).

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    Message was edited by: Tiborius
    Message was edited by: Tiborius

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    Message was edited by: Ephriam Grey

    Ephriam Grey wrote:
    (the failure progresses from a wifi card failure to a motherboard failure, apparently caused by the use of bad materials in the NVIDIA motherboard/HP overclocking of the AMD processor to sell it off as a more powerful machine).
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    Yes.
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    2-3 seconds?
    12.) Are most of the Mac laptop ports on the sides of the laptop, or the back?
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  • A proposal - moving some things out of mx.rpc into mx.async?

    Hey guys,
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    Just an idea that's been bouncing around my head, thought I'd throw it out there and see what you guys think - worth filing a feature request?
    -Josh
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    Nice, well while you're in there, any chance we can get FaultEvent from send() dispatching on next frame like a normal event (and on the AsyncToken as well as the WebServie)? I've got some *ugly* workaround code because the fault is dispatched (and handlers invoked) before send() returns, and you can't listen to invocation faults on the AsyncToken like normal events:
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    Cheers,
    -Josh
    On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Matt Chotin
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     A proposal - moving some things out of mx.rpc into mx.async?
    I'm not sure the changes are in Iresponder as much as in a new impl class, but we're looking at making the service classes accept an Iresponder as the last arg to send(...) (where we'd look at the last arg and if it's a responder pull it off).  This can make some of the declarative stuff that we're looking at a little easier.  So any APIs we do would just be to assist in the wiring up of all this stuff.
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    Matt
    On 9/30/08 5:38 PM, "Josh McDonald" <
    [email protected]> wrote:
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    Developers --
     A proposal - moving some things out of mx.rpc into mx.async?
    Don't really care about the package name thing, mainly just about changing some of the things that make them less useful when you not actually using mx.rpc.*
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    -Josh
    On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Matt Chotin <
    [email protected]> wrote:
    A new message was posted by Matt Chotin in
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     A proposal - moving some things out of mx.rpc into mx.async?
    So it probably would have been better if we had created mx.async or used utils for these before, but I don't know that repackaging is a great idea at this point since it will make migrating code forward harder.
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    Matt
    On 9/29/08 7:23 PM, "Josh McDonald" <
    [email protected]> wrote:
    A new discussion was started by Josh McDonald in
    Developers --
     A proposal - moving some things out of mx.rpc into mx.async?
    Hey guys,
    Just want to get your thoughts rather than jump in and filing a feature request. What do you think about moving a few things that aren't necessarily RPC out of mx.rpc and into a new package (for example mx.async) and removing some of the service-related assumptions? A couple of candidates for this in my mind would be:
     *   AsyncToken - I use this for all sorts of Async stuff, which is usually waiting on a service, but not always.
     *   IResponder - This is useful for things such as command chains, and listening in to user actions, and the like. I would also like to see IResponder.applyFault() and IResponder.applyResult() be taken out of mx_internal (and their parameters changed from event types to something else, perhaps Object for result, and Fault for fault).
     *   And the various impls of IResponder as well :)
    Just an idea that's been bouncing around my head, thought I'd throw it out there and see what you guys think - worth filing a feature request?
    -Josh
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