[Laszlo-user] Incorporating complex SWF content

[Elliot Winard]

What problems did you run into incorporating comples SWFs into your 
Laszlo apps?  I can see problems if your Flash-generated SWFs use _root 
or _global references that conflict with the ones in 
OpenLaszlo-generated SWFs.

I worked on several medium-sized projects (with OLS 3.1, I believe) 
where a significant portion of the functionality was done in Flash and 
Laszlo was used successfully to tie it all together.

Need more info.  :)
-e

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Elliot Winard
Sr. Software Engineer
Webtop Team
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:55 PM, rogerhoward at rogerroger.org wrote:

> 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