[Laszlo-dev] Flash 10 runtime now supported in trunk

[P T Withington]

Great stuff!

On 2008-12-17, at 19:50EST, Henry Minsky wrote:

> Also, please be aware, if you have code that you want to compile or
> run conditionally on Flash 9
> and Flash 10 , use the "$as3" compile time constant, so instead of
>
> if ($swf9) { ...
>
> say
>
> if ($as3) { ...
>
>
> In LZX code, there is a new syntax for the <switch> tag, in the  
> <when> clause.
>
> Formerly, you would say
>
> <when runtime="swf9">
>
> Now, you can conditionalize on any compile time constant, which is  
> one of
> $debug, $profile, $backtrace, $swf7, $swf8, $as2, $swf9, $swf10, $as3,
> $dhtml, $j2me, $svg, $js1
>
> The new syntax is
>
> <switch>
>  <when property="$as3">
>
> There is actually an extension of this syntax to compare string
> values, so you can say
>
> <switch>
>  <when property="$runtime" value="dhtml">
>
> But this is of limited use, because only the $runtime property is a
> string value, and all the other compile
> time constants listed above are booleans.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Henry Minsky <hminsky at laszlosystems.com 
> > wrote:
>> I made a checkin (r12164)  which updates the flex compiler in the LPS
>> to something that officially supports
>> Flash 10. (It's actually a snapshot of their trunk, they recommended
>> anything from after October 29th which was their
>> milestone Flash 10 relese)
>>
>> The LPS now supports a lzr=swf10 runtime target, and will build Flash
>> 10 LFC libf by default.
>> (This can be disabled by setting build.lfc.runtime.swf10 = false in
>> build.properties).
>>
>> The dev-console has a swf10 button you can select to compile a Flash
>> 10 app. You will need to download
>> the Flash 10 player, and since you're doing development you should
>> install the Flash 10 debug player
>> (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html)
>> for maximum debugging goodness.
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>> --
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com