[Laszlo-dev] just noticed that buttons don't animate in the debugger in swf10

[Max Carlson]

Shouldn't the swf10 compiler automatically prefer the .png alternative? 
  That doesn't seem to magical to me...

I suppose in this case you could switch to using .pngs explicitly but 
that doesn't fix the larger issue.

On 1/25/10 12:42 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> The problem is that the debugger app uses single monolithic .swf files
> in it's resource declaration, e.g.,
>
>
> <resource src="images/buttons/prefsbtn.swf" name="prefsBtn_rsc" />
>
> ,  so the flash 10 compiler is using just the single swf8 file, which
> won't operate properly as a multiframe flash 10 swf.
>
> I guess we could make the LZX compiler smarter, and if it sees a swf8
> resource being
> included into a swf10 app, it would try to use the .png preferentially,
> but that seems like
> too much magic.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Max Carlson <max at laszlosystems.com
> <mailto:max at laszlosystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Shouldn't the swf10 compiler be using the .png resources automatically?
>
>
>     On 1/25/10 7:30 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
>         I just noticed that when you mouse over  or click on the debugger's
>           buttons  in swf9/10, they don't change their
>         resources. This is because the button resource is a regular old swf8
>         file, and the different frames don't get
>         parsed out automagically by the compiler for flash 10.  We
>         already have
>         .png files built in the autoPng directory
>         for each frame of each button. Should I change the resource
>         declarations
>         to refer to these?
>
>         I.e.,
>
>         Change the declaration of buttons in the debugger.lzx from
>
>         <resource src="images/buttons/prefsbtn.swf" name="prefsBtn_rsc" />
>
>         to
>
>         <resource name="prefsBtn_rsc">
>         <frame src="images/buttons/autoPng/prefsbtn0001.png" />
>         <frame src="images/buttons/autoPng/prefsbtn0002.png" />
>         <frame src="images/buttons/autoPng/prefsbtn0003.png" />
>         </resource>
>
>         Or maybe we should just hoist those autoPng files up to the
>         images/buttons directory, and get rid of the monolithic swf8 .swf
>         multiframe resource files altogether?
>
>
>
>         --
>         Henry Minsky
>         Software Architect
>         hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>         <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>         <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Regards,
>     Max Carlson
>     OpenLaszlo.org
>
>
>
>
> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org