[Laszlo-user] Incorporating complex SWF content

[rogerhoward@rogerroger.org]

I've been building a big mix of internal apps and customer products  
with OpenLaszlo for the past few months - I'm far more comfortable  
writing most of my apps in OL than I ever was in Flash.

I just came across something I had taken for granted would just work  
all along, but never had cause to try (or even read the relevant  
documentation) until now. Using OL 4, I figured incorporating any SWF  
was as simple as loading it into a <view>... after banging my head  
for a few minutes mystified why some SWFs just worked, and others  
gave a compile error, I note the caveats in the docs about SWFs with  
ActionScript.

So I can accept the way things are... but is this inherent in some  
way to the OL design and so may always be an issue, or is it going to  
be possible someday to incorporate SWFs with any/all features  
assuming you compile to a compatible SWF target?

Too vague?

Cheers,

Roger Howard