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

[Max Carlson]

I think swf10 could use the same method as DHTML.  Inspecting each 
resource for its version seems like too much.

Then again, it's always the fourth byte into the swf resource, right? 
It would be useful to warn about incompatible versions to help others 
debug the same issue - especially when there aren't complimentary .pngs.

On 1/25/10 2:01 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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>>
>         <mailto: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>
>         <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