[Laszlo-dev] autoPng and SWFs -- time to remove the SWFs?

[P T Withington]

Filed as:

http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-6057

On 2008-05-28, at 18:53 EDT, David Temkin wrote:

> To clean these things up:
>
> 1. The directories containing the components and demos/examples:  
> remove the SWFs, promote the PNGs from the autoPng folder one level  
> up;
> 2. The LZX source for the components and demos/examples; explicitly  
> use the .png files in resource declarations instead of the  
> current .swfs
>
> Or it might be easier to do some/all of this manually.
>
> - D.
>
> On May 28, 2008, at 3:00 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> Not sure what you mean by 'a script to clean things up'?
>>
>> On 2008-05-28, at 15:58 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>
>>> The PNGs that have been autogenerated are good, both in terms of  
>>> appearance and in terms of file size. I don't think we need to add  
>>> a manual task here; a script to clean things up would be great.
>>>
>>> Next step for a designer would be to create a new skin for the  
>>> components as a whole. But that's a non-trivial task.
>>>
>>> - D.
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2008, at 10:48 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>>> This seems like a fine idea to me, but shouldn't we actually get  
>>>> some designer resources to create optimal .png's, rather than  
>>>> rely on the auto-generated ones?
>>>>
>>>> And then we just need to prioritize this w.r.t. everything else  
>>>> that is going on...
>>>>
>>>> On 2008-05-23, at 15:33 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it time to remove the SWF resources altogether from the  
>>>>> components and the non-SWF specific sample apps, and move the  
>>>>> contents of the autoPng directories up a level?
>>>>>
>>>>> The SWFs add confusion both to the source code ("I see SWF  
>>>>> resources -- how could that work in DHTML?") and in the way the  
>>>>> directories are laid out. And the autoPng mechanism is magic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think there's a benefit in keeping the SWFs around.  
>>>>> While SWFs in some cases may be smaller and/or may stretch  
>>>>> better, the confusion and difference between runtimes outweigh  
>>>>> the benefits.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> - D.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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