[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20080502-ptw-H Summary: Make handler trampoline work in swf9

Henry Minsky henry.minsky at gmail.com
Sun May 4 14:53:30 PDT 2008


Declaring the methods public would have the nice effect of making the swf9
object introspection feature, such as it is,
actually be able to see them.



On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:

> Should we just make all LZX methods public?
>
> I don't think we want to burden the LZX programmer with this issue.
>
> The other alternative is to shove toString into the prototype.  What AS3
> does, for back-compatibility is put toString on Object.prototype.  You can
> override that in your class by defining your own toString on your class
> prototype, but then you can't make super calls.  If a class has a public
> toString method, AS3 will call that in preference to the Object.prototype
> function.  But it has to be public.  If you don't declare it public, you can
> call it directly in your code but `String(foo)` and `'' + foo` will not.
>
>
> On 2008-05-03, at 21:18 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
>  lzpix is getting a similar issue when I try to compile it in swf9
> >
> > org.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: line 107: Error: Incompatible override,
> > in
> > line: override function toString () {
> > line 243: Error: Incompatible override, in line: override function
> > toString
> > () {
> > line 126: Error: Incompatible override, in line: override function
> > toString
> > () {
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:40 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >  The override us automatic, I think it is the public that is screwing
> > > the
> > > test case. If toString is not public it won't be invoked by implicit
> > > string
> > > conversions. So I declared it public in my patch that Max was testing.
> > > But
> > > the test must override but not declare public. I'm pretty sure that is
> > > the
> > > conflict.
> > >
> > >
> > > On May 2, 2008, at 21:55, "Henry Minsky" <hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Aren't the override keywords supposed to be inserted automatically ?
> > > Do we need to declare toString on something in the lfc.lzx schema file
> > > so
> > > that the compiler
> > > knows to insert an override?
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM, P T Withington < <ptw at pobox.com>
> > > ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Well toString has to be a public override for it to work, so, I think
> > > > the example will have to be updated.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On May 2, 2008, at 14:09, Max Carlson < <max at openlaszlo.org>
> > > > max at openlaszlo.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Your example works, but
> > > >
> > > > > <http://localhost:8080/trunk/examples/modeexample.lzx?lzr=swf9>
> > > > > http://localhost:8080/trunk/examples/modeexample.lzx?lzr=swf9 now
> > > > > gives a compiler error:
> > > > > org.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: line 366: Error: Incompatible
> > > > > override, in line: override function toString () {
> > > > >
> > > > > P T Withington wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >  Change 20080502-ptw-H by ptw at dueling-banjos.home on 2008-05-02
> > > > > > 06:48:32 EDT
> > > > > >  in /Users/ptw/OpenLaszlo/ringding-2/WEB-INF/lps/lfc
> > > > > >  for <http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/lfc
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/lfc
> > > > > > Summary: Make handler trampoline work in swf9
> > > > > > Bugs Fixed:
> > > > > > LPP-5818 'Warn when methods registered for events aren't
> > > > > > expecting
> > > > > > exactly one argument from sendEvent()'
> > > > > > Technical Reviewer: hminsky (pending)
> > > > > > QA Reviewer: max (pending)
> > > > > > Details:
> > > > > >  LzFormattter: Type and default args for swf9, work around
> > > > > > switch
> > > > > >  verifier error (must have break on final case).
> > > > > >  *: toString must be public to have it seen by string coercion
> > > > > > Tests:
> > > > > >  This now runs in swf9, demonstrating that the wrapper to handle
> > > > > >  the missing argument is being installed.
> > > > > >  <canvas>
> > > > > >   <simplelayout />
> > > > > >   <text name="output" clickable="true" text="Click Me!"/>
> > > > > >   <method name="handleMe">
> > > > > >     output.format("Clicked!");
> > > > > >   </method>
> > > > > >   <handler name="onclick" reference="output" method="handleMe"
> > > > > > />
> > > > > >  </canvas>
> > > > > > Files:
> > > > > > M      kernel/swf/LzLibrary.lzs
> > > > > > M      kernel/dhtml/LzLibrary.js
> > > > > > M      services/LzURL.js
> > > > > > M      services/LzIdle.lzs
> > > > > > M      debugger/LzMemory.lzs
> > > > > > M      core/LzMiniNode.lzs
> > > > > > M      core/LzNode.lzs
> > > > > > M      views/LzText.lzs
> > > > > > M      views/LaszloCanvas.lzs
> > > > > > M      helpers/LzFont.lzs
> > > > > > M      helpers/LzSelectionManager.lzs
> > > > > > M      events/LaszloEvents.lzs
> > > > > > M      controllers/LzAnimatorGroup.lzs
> > > > > > M      controllers/LaszloLayout.lzs
> > > > > > M      controllers/LaszloAnimation.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzLazyReplicationManager.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzReplicationManager.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDatapointer.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDataText.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDataElement.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDataset.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDatapath.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzResizeReplicationManager.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzParsedPath.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzParam.lzs
> > > > > > M      data/LzDataAttrBind.lzs
> > > > > > M      compiler/LzFormatter.lzs
> > > > > > Changeset:
> > > > > > <http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20080502-ptw-H.tar
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20080502-ptw-H.tar
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Max Carlson
> > > > > OpenLaszlo.org
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Henry Minsky
> > > Software Architect
> > > <hminsky at laszlosystems.com>hminsky at laszlosystems.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Henry Minsky
> > Software Architect
> > hminsky at laszlosystems.com
> >
>
>


-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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