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

[P T Withington]

On 2007-02-26, at 18:03 EST, strk wrote:

> Ok, after adding support for IMPORTASSETS2 Gnash plays the  
> "library" file
> with these two warnings onlyh:
>
>   MALFORMED SWF: Movie attempts to import symbols from itself.
>   WARNING: call_method invoked in something that doesn't cast to an  
> as_object: undefined
>
> The first one we discussed already. Dunno if the font hack works, a  
> testcase would
> help finding out.
> The second one is due to LzInstantiateView being undefined. I think  
> this is also
> expected as the lib is not being loaded from the main file.

Indeed.

I will note that in the real SWF player, calling undefined is not  
fatal, it returns undefined and continues.  The real SWF player is  
extremely lenient about errors.

> --strk;
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:28:39PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > The importAssets hack is in there because it turns out that if you  
> > do that
> > it imports any fonts in the loaded clip into the main app, so it's
> > a way to dynamically load fonts at runtime. Unfortunately we  
> > couldn't figure
> > out any way to use that to dynamically load swf assets (Laszlo  
> > resources) so
> > they could be attached to clips in the main movie, Flash doesn't  
> > seem to
> > allow that.
> >
> > On 2/26/07, strk <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:05:54PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > > > stage="defer" or stage="late" will both work
> > >
> > > Ok. I tried both and both give the exactly same output in
> > > build/main/mylib.lzx.swf
> > >
> > > 'flasm' reports a single frame with 4 DOACTION blocks and in  
> > > importAsset
> > > which seems to be importing itself (weird).
> > > The simple code is in the second DOACTION block, I guess I'll  
> > > need to wipe
> > > out one of those library files to get rid of the others, right ?
> > >
> > > Flasm output follows:
> > >
> > > movie 'build/main/mylib.lzx.swf' compressed // flash 7, total  
> > > frames: 1,
> > > frame rate: 0 fps, 500x400 px
> > >
> > >  frame 0
> > >    constants 'LzInstantiateView', '_level0'
> > >    push 'LzInstantiateView', '_level0'
> > >    getVariable
> > >    push 'LzInstantiateView'
> > >    getMember
> > >    varEquals
> > >  end // of frame 0
> > >
> > >  frame 0
> > >    constants 'foo'
> > >    push 'foo', 259
> > >    setVariable
> > >  end // of frame 0
> > >
> > >  importAssets from 'build/main/mylib.lzx.swf'
> > >  end // of importAssets
> > >
> > >  frame 0
> > >    constants '_parent', 'this', 'snippetLoaded', 'loader'
> > >    push NULL, 'this'
> > >    getVariable
> > >    push '_parent'
> > >    getMember
> > >    push 2, 'this'
> > >    getVariable
> > >    push '_parent'
> > >    getMember
> > >    push 'loader'
> > >    getMember
> > >    push 'snippetLoaded'
> > >    callMethod
> > >    pop
> > >  end // of frame 0
> > >
> > >  frame 0
> > >    stop
> > >  end // of frame 0
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > > --strk;
> >
> >
> >
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