[Laszlo-user] swf9 method parameters mismatch causes hangs

[P T Withington]

I'm guessing the thread in the forums is you too?  I posted some  
suggestions there:

http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=13292

I would have hoped the Flash back end would have detected this error  
at compile time, but apparently not?  Please file a bug with your  
example case.  I think we could do better here...

On 2009-04-02, at 22:18EDT, Gregory Denton wrote:

> I'm upgrading my large app to swf9 and having a very difficult time of
> it. I've done all the things in the wiki and have a clean compile. The
> app hangs whenever there is a call to a method where the caller has an
> extra arg that is not in the method args list. This is not mentioned
> in the wiki and there is no debug message printed! (It is easy, for me
> at least :-(, to sometimes forget the signature for methods called in
> a dynamic-like manner.) My primitive debugging technique is to put in
> Debug.writes, very time consuming with the depth of calls. Is this a
> known problem? Any way to put out a message at the point it hangs?
>
> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Runtime_Differences
>
> A simple test case:
>
> <canvas debug="true">
>    <simplelayout axis="y"/>
>    <view name="foo" width="100" height="100" bgcolor="red">
>        <method name="meth">
>            Debug.write('NOT PRINTED IF swf9!!!');
>        </method>
>    </view>
>    <button text="foo" onclick="foo.meth(0); Debug.write('NOT PRINTED
> IF swf9!!!');"/>
> </canvas>
>
> Thanks.