[Laszlo-dev] one more time on events for built in objects

[Daniel Pool]

Thanks Adam. I was beginning to suspect it was something in one of  
the Java files but I didn't know where to look. Hopefully I can plug  
away at this a little more and understand it better.

Daniel.

On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Adam Wolff wrote:

> On Jan 20, Daniel Pool wrote:
>
>> I think my previous question was not clear so I am trying again.
>>
>> I want to understand how events come in to an openlaszlo application
>> from the flash player. I understand that this is specific to a single
>> runtime, but we will be targeting an swf, at least initially. So for
>> instance where does an onclick event come in from. And where is that
>> event registered with an LzView.  I have looked at  
>> LzView.setClickable
>> but that doesn't really answer my question. I can't find where the  
>> event
>> is registered or sent.
>
> This is pretty tricky actually.  There's a special resource  
> available to
> LzViews that gets defined in SWFFile.java.
>     // 6. A movieclip with the export identifier "LzMouseEvents" that
>     // has a 100x100 ...
>
> THis gets attached to view which is clickable in LzView.setClickable
>
>     LzView.prototype.__LZclickregion =  "LzMouseEvents";
>     //..later
>     LzView.prototype.setClickable = function ( amclickable ){
>         if ( amclickable != false && !this.__LZbuttonRef){
>             this.__LZmovieClipRef.attachMovie 
> (this.__LZclickregion , ...
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> A
>
>
>
>>
>> I have already seen at least one bug ( LPP-434) that is going to be
>> problematic for our application and given my experience with other  
>> development
>> environments I expect I will find more. I really want to be able  
>> to understand
>> and address these issues so I need to understand the code. I have  
>> searched the
>> code, searched the web, and searched the mail list but I am just  
>> not getting
>> it.
>>
>> I think I am close with this, then I get to move on to understanding
>> persistence.
>>
>> As always any input is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel.
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