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

[Henry Minsky]

Well, we need to decide on the rules for preferred resource and how to fall
back
to alternatives.

Should we do something like this?

If runtime is SWF10:

  If resource named "foo.swf" exists AND is of type SWF10, use it, else look
for PNG files

If runtime is SWF8:

   If resource named "foo.swf" exists AND is of type SWF8, use it, else look
for PNG

If runtime is DHTML:

   If resource named "foo.swf", look for PNG files

?




On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Max Carlson <max at laszlosystems.com> wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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