[Laszlo-user] OL for Flash only

[Max Carlson]

Evaldas Taroza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am starting with OL. I decided to create a simple chat application, 
> based on XMPP, in order to play a bit with OL. In XMPP peers normally 
> communicate using sockets, so the chat would leverage the flash runtime 
> only.
> 
> However, everywhere I try to find out how to do flash stuff with OL I 
> stumble on comments that I should consider using Actionscript and Flex 
> instead, because the power of OL is the portability...
> 
> I really want to play with OL, but apparently I will need to reach some 
> flash related interfaces. Moreover, there are libraries like XIFF 
> written in Actionscript.
> 
> So several questions:
> 1. Considering that I need only flash runtime how can I use available 
> Actionscript libraries inside my LZX scripts?

There is a <script/> tag that you can use to embed existing scripts.

> 2. Is it reasonable to choose OL for my described app? Maybe Flex is a 
> better choice?

OpenLaszlo will work fine.

> 3. How much flash API can I reach from OL scripts? How can I export 
> flash APIs to be available in OL?

The drawview tag is a good example of integrating Laszlo with 
actionscript.  It exposes the Actionscript drawing APIs as OpenLaszlo 
methods.  It's built into the distribution and can be found here:

http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/lps/components/extensions/drawview.lzx

> Thanks for help.
> 
> Evaldas
> 

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Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org