Re: [Swftools-common] possible bug in lib/action/compile.c

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:56:28PM -0400, Jason Christopher Reed 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Is this something that actually works in the current distribution, and not 
> merely in some future speculative world where embedding is supported?

It's something that actually works.

This is a (very small) example:

.flash name=as3file.swf version=9 bbox=400x200

    .swf otherSWF "somefile.swf"
    .put otherSWF
    .font MyArial "/usr/lib/win32/fonts/arial.ttf"

    .action:
        import flash.display.Sprite
        import flash.display.MovieClip
        import flash.events.Event
        import flash.text.TextField
        import flash.text.TextFormat
        package {
            public class MyArial extends flash.text.Font
            {
            }
            public class MyMovieClip extends MovieClip
            {
                public var otherSWF:Sprite = new Sprite();
                public function MyMovieClip()
                {
                    this.graphics.beginFill(0xcccc00)
                    this.graphics.drawCircle(300,100,100)
                    this.graphics.endFill()
                    var t:TextField = new TextField();
                    var f:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
                    f.font = "MyArial";
                    t.text = "scroll";
                    this.addChild(t);
                    addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, newFrame);
                }
                public function newFrame(e:Event)
                {
                    this.otherSWF.x += 1;
                }
            }
        }
    .end
.end

You may notice that the whole thing is unecessarily complex, redundant
and missing elegance.
I don't personally recommend starting anything with the current syntax,
and rather wait for as3compile to support embedding.

> I don't have extremely strong opinions about future embedding syntax, 
> except argreeing that it would be nice to have some kind of compatibility 
> with existing Flex code, whether direct or indirect.

Noted. 
I agree that we'll be needing some degree of compatibility.

Matthias