Re: [Gnash-dev] Re: OpenLaszlo support (continued..)

[P T Withington]

On 2007-02-27, at 05:37 EST, strk wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > PTW mentioned writing a zero byte file for the LFC7.lzl, and then  
> > compiling
> > the main app,  what happened when you tried that?
>
> I tried this.
> LFC7.lzl is, despite the extension, an SWF file (why is that?).

No good reason.  This should be filed as a bug.

> I substituted it with an empty SWF and the resulting main.swf
> reduces to a size of about 1Kb. Still, it contains a few
> DEFINEBUTTON and DEFINEMOVIECLIP instantiation of
> them and some exportAssets.
> What can I wipe out next, and is there really no way to specify
> this as a 'lzc' command-line switch  ?

The DEFINEBUTTON, etc. are the standard scaffolding that bridge  
between the player runtime and our runtime library, so they are  
needed in every Laszlo app.  As a result no one ever considered  
making them optional.

> --strk;
>
>
> > I'm in the middle of rebuilding my development world, but I can  
> > try a few
> > things when I'm back running.
> >
> > The approach i suggested below should produce an executable  
> > library file,
> > which is designed to be loaded into the
> > main application via a loadMovie() call.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/26/07, Henry Minsky <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Can you try this
> > >
> > > main.lzx:
> > >
> > > <canvas>
> > > <import href="mylib.lzx"/>
> > > </canvas>
> > >
> > > mylib.lzx:
> > >
> > > <library>
> > > <script when="immediate">
> > > foo = 259;
> > > </script>
> > > </library>
> > >
> > > If you compile the main.lzx, it should produce an auxiliary  
> > > library file
> > > named build/main/mylib.lzx.swf, or maybe mylib.swf, I forget,
> > > but that library file should have basically just the code in the  
> > > script
> > > block, plus a little footer which calls back to the main movie after
> > > loading.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/26/07, strk <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Just to ping again on this thread...
> > > > I'm still at the point of being unable to produce a simple SWF with
> > > > OpenLaszlo.
> > > > Doing so will allow me to proceed in steps by
> > > > compiling parts of the runtime lib separately to try
> > > > at finding the problem preventing Gnash from playing *any*
> > > > OpenLaszlo-generated movie.
> > > >
> > > > Last attempt was with revision 3927 (Feb 25 2007).
> > > > Source code is still the same:
> > > >
> > > >         <canvas> <script when="immediate"><![CDATA[
> > > >         trace('hello world');
> > > >         ]]> </script> </canvas>
> > > >
> > > > What am I doing wrong ?
> > > >
> > > > --strk;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:32:53AM +0100, strk wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:49:56PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > > > > > Try this link
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://download.openlaszlo.org/nightly/legals/
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, got 4.0.x revision 3813.
> > > > > Turned content of lps-4.0.x/Server/lps-4.0.x/lps/includes in  
> > > > > all empty
> > > > SWFs.
> > > > > Compiled this script:
> > > > >
> > > > >       <canvas> <script when="immediate"><![CDATA[
> > > > >       trace('hello world');
> > > > >       ]]> </script> </canvas>
> > > > >
> > > > > But still find non-action tags in the resulting SWF:
> > > > >
> > > > > Offset: 26 (0x001a) Block type: 32 (SWF_DEFINESHAPE3)
> > > > > Offset: 58 (0x003a) Block type: 34 (SWF_DEFINEBUTTON2)
> > > > > Offset: 155 (0x009b) Block type: 26 (SWF_PLACEOBJECT2) [
> > > > __offscreenkeyclip ]
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > --strk;
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > It was linked from the page
> > > > > > http://www.openlaszlo.org/download#legals
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll try and get that patch in tomorrow for the PLACEOBJECT2 bug.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 2/14/07, strk <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:08:06PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > > > > > > > Basically all the tags in an lzx file compile down to function
> > > > calls to
> > > > > > > > LzInstantiateView which is defined in the LFC.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > You can get an app which contains code which doesn't depend on
> > > > the LFC
> > > > > > > by
> > > > > > > > making an app which looks like
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > <canvas>
> > > > > > > > <script when="immediate">
> > > > > > > > <![CDATA[
> > > > > > > > some javascript here
> > > > > > > > ]]>
> > > > > > > > </script>
> > > > > > > > </canvas>
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Note that we only added the when="immediate" feature a couple
> > > > weeks ago,
> > > > > > > so
> > > > > > > > you need a new build to do this.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Are nightly builds available ? (build instruction are wrong,  
> > > > > > > refer
> > > > to a
> > > > > > > directory
> > > > > > > not available in SVN: jakarta-ant-1.5.1)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --strk;
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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