[Laszlo-dev] application boilerplate code

[David Temkin]

Splash will be a lot different in SWF9, I expect. Better and easier to  
implement.

It may be that to implement Splash, we need to create a tiny wrapper  
app that puts up the splash and then (1) loads the LFC, (2) loads the  
main app, while animating as per the splash spec.

On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:33 AM, P T Withington wrote:

> We are compiling the LFC as a separate library, so it is  
> theoretically possible to load/share.  We know there is a secret  
> library cache in the player, but I think you have to get special  
> dispensation from Adobe to use that.  At least we can share in the  
> browser cache.
>
> As to splash... <bleah />.
>
> On 2008-01-09, at 13:23 EST, David Temkin wrote:
>
>> as you design this, are you thinking about separately loading the  
>> LFC?
>>
>> the whole splash/LFC/startup process will need some thought
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the handwritten code I am currently using for a compiling a  
>>> an application. It extends an  LFC class called LFCApplication,  
>>> which is in  the LFC and responsible for initializing the runtime.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> package {
>>>  import flash.display.*;
>>>  public class LzApplication extends LFCApplication {
>>>
>>>    public function LzApplication () {
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        canvas = new LzCanvas({__LZproxied: "true",
>>>                               bgcolor: 0xffffff,
>>>                               embedfonts: true,
>>>                               fontname: "Verdana,Vera,sans-serif",
>>>                               fontsize: 11,
>>>                               fontstyle: "plain",
>>>                               height: 600,
>>>                               lpsbuild: "7726 C:\\users\\hqm\ 
>>> \openlaszlo\\devildog",
>>>                               lpsbuilddate:  
>>> "2008-01-04T13:11:50-0500",
>>>                               lpsrelease: "Latest",
>>>                               lpsversion: "4.1.x",
>>>                               runtime: "swf9",
>>>                               width: 800});
>>>
>>>
>>>        addChild(canvas.sprite);
>>>
>>>        LzInstantiateView(..., 6);
>>>        LzInstantiateView(..., 2);
>>>        LzInstantiateView(..., 2);
>>>        ...
>>>
>>>       canvas.initDone ()
>>>
>>>
>>>           }
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'd like to make the script compiler emit this when compiling an  
>>> app. I guess all the top level statements from the
>>> script code should be collected up and put into this LzApplication  
>>> class' constructor, or a method like appStartup()
>>> which the  LFCApplication constructor can call.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking at SWF9Generator.flexCompile, and it seems like it  
>>> always compiles the LFC as a library with compc, which it seems like
>>> we don't want to do each time we compile an app.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should just have separate flexCompileApp and  
>>> flexCompileLibrary methods?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Henry Minsky
>>> Software Architect
>>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>>
>>
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