Re: [Gnash-dev] About Buttons

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Udo Giacomozzi wrote:
> Hello Sandro,
> 
> Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 11:03:57 AM, you wrote:
> SS> - Not currently active characters are still advanced. So if
> SS>   a sprite active on mouse over consists of a moving thing,
> SS>   the thing would keep moving while still not visible, and
> SS>   all frame actions of that character would still be executed
> SS>   (would that be correct?). As a side-effect, when these
> SS>   not-currently-active characters get invalidated the button
> SS>   gets child-invalidated too.
> 
> btntest2.swf already checks (activate trace() output!) this and tells
> you that:
> 
> - inactive charactes do *not* get advanced
> 
> - characters becoming active again get a new ID
>   (_level0.instance3.instance5, _level0.instance3.instance7, ...)
>   implying that the PP actually destroys the instances

Great. IIRC the whole ::restart() thing was kept on your request
aiming at reducing overhead of constructing/destructing instances.
This finding requires a fair amount changes. Testing becomes even
more important now. I know you're pretty resistent to test requests eh ?
:)

--strk;