[Laszlo-dev] where does the flex compiler think "parent" is being bound in this event handler?

[keiji Ono]

Thanks Henry.
Rinding would not support swf9 ?
I thought it in ver 4.1, but i

Henry Minsky wrote:

> Yes,we are working on making the Openlaszlo compiler emit code which
> is sent to the mxmlc compiler, in order to produce swf9 applications.
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> Work is starting in the subversion branch named "devildog". We are
> working on some of the core infrastructure for compiling in swf9, and
> will soon be at a point where many people can help with the swf9
> runtime. We have several important issues that we are working on right
> now,
> including generating real "native" (as3) class declarations for user
> defined LZX classes. When that is done, then we can use a lot of help
> getting
> all the various runtime modules working and optimized for swf9.
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> On Jan 10, 2008 12:34 AM, keiji Ono <keiji_ono at net8.co.jp
> <mailto:keiji_ono at net8.co.jp>> wrote:
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>     May i come inside ?
>     Dose not this issue mean what will be able to compile lzx code
>     with mxmlc, dose this ?
>
>     ono
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>     Henry Minsky wrote:
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>>     Yeah, we're going to need to do that no matter what because we
>>     need setters to be able to call "super()"
>>
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>>     On Jan 9, 2008 11:23 PM, P T Withington < ptw at openlaszlo.org
>>     <mailto:ptw at openlaszlo.org>> wrote:
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>>         Well I thought our handlers were supposed to be compiled with
>>         'implicit this'.
>>
>>         Perhaps Don left this out, because this _is_ implicit in AS3
>>         method
>>         bodies? If so, we should make the tag compiler output anonymous
>>         handlers like this as methods not functions. This would mean
>>         we would
>>         have to start emitting those anonymous singleton classes for
>>         views
>>         that add methods...
>>
>>         On 2008-01-09, at 23:06 EST, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>>         > I've got a little test LZX code that has a click handler
>>         like this:
>>         >
>>         > <view id="bar" x="200" y="200" >
>>         > <view id="foo" bgcolor="0xcccccc" x="-100" y="-100"
>>         height="200"
>>         > width="200"
>>         > onclick="parent.animate('rotation', 360, 1500, true)"
>>         >>
>>         >
>>         > When I compile it I get this error from the flex compiler
>>         >
>>         > /cygdrive/c/flex2/bin/mxmlc -debug=true
>>         > -library-path+=../../../lps/includes/lfc/LFC9.lzl
>>         -default-size 800
>>         > 600
>>         > -default-frame-rate 60 DemoApp.as
>>         > Loading configuration file C:\flex2\frameworks\flex-config.xml
>>         >
>>         C:\users\hqm\openlaszlo\devildog\WEB-INF\lps\lfc\DemoApp.as(49):
>>         > col: 20
>>         > Error: Call to a possibly undefined method animate through a
>>         > reference with
>>         > static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.
>>         >
>>         > parent.animate('rotation', 360, 1500, true)
>>         > ^
>>         >
>>         > The handler is compiled to a function inside of the usual stuff
>>         > passed to a
>>         > call to LzInstiateView:
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > LzInstantiateView({attrs: {id: "bar",
>>         > x: 200,
>>         > y: 200},
>>         > children: [{attrs:
>>         > {$delegates: ["onclick", "$m1", null,
>>         > "oninit", "$m2_foo_reference", null],
>>         > $m1: function foo_$m1() {
>>         > parent.animate('rotation', 360, 1500, true)
>>         > }, ...
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > So I am not sure in what context the compiler thinks that
>>         "parent"
>>         > is being
>>         > looked up.
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > If I change the code to refer to "this.parent", it compiles
>>         happily,
>>         > and
>>         > appears to work
>>         >
>>         > <view id="bar" x="200" y="200" >
>>         > <view id="foo" bgcolor="0xcccccc" x="-100" y="-100"
>>         height="200"
>>         > width="200"
>>         > onclick="this.parent.animate('rotation', 360, 1500, true)"
>>         >>
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > --
>>         > Henry Minsky
>>         > Software Architect
>>         > hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
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>>     -- 
>>     Henry Minsky
>>     Software Architect
>>     hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
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> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
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