Fred, that’s great to know that conditional compiling is working!  I’ll
probably take that route trying to back port and get rid of our .js files.

-Alex


On 6/23/15, 9:51 PM, "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>> HtmlContainer.load([JQUERY_SCRIPT], init);
>>
>> As a
> side note, this can be also used in FlexJS application (swf / swc), not
> only externs JS based applications, the callback will be called
>immediately, that's it.
>
>To make things even clearer, especially because I use conditional
>compilation with 2 build configurations, I can build my library in a once
>with IntelliJ.
>
>https://paste.apache.org/kOwX
>
>My AS Build Configuration:
>-define+=CONFIG::AS,true
>-define+=CONFIG::JS,false
>-include-file=js/out/HtmlContainer.js,out\production\HtmlContainer\js\out\
>HtmlContainer.js
>
>My JS Build Configuration:
>-define+=CONFIG::AS,false
>-define+=CONFIG::JS,true
>-js-output-type=FLEXJS
>
>Frédéric THOMAS
>
>----------------------------------------
>> From: webdoubl...@hotmail.com
>> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: [FalconJX FlexJS] JQuery up and running, a nightmare but
>>we now have 1.9 in AS
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:55:05 +0100
>>
>>> HtmlContainer.load([JQUERY_SCRIPT], init);
>>
>> As a side note, this can be also used in FlexJS application (swf /
>>swc), not only externs JS based applications, the callback will be
>>called immediately, that's it.
>>
>> The function as it is today is simple but could be implemented to send
>>events instead of using a callback, parallel downloads, css, etc...
>>
>> It is not as perfect as adding a MetaTag in AS (emitted only in JS) to
>>do the same job (or event better, what I was thinking, to emit directly
>>the Script tag comment in the generated JS file) but it works.
>>
>> Frédéric THOMAS
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: webdoubl...@hotmail.com
>>> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>>> Subject: RE: [FalconJX FlexJS] JQuery up and running, a nightmare but
>>>we now have 1.9 in AS
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:27:55 +0100
>>>
>>>> It just occurred to me that you can’t use this sort of mechanism
>>>>because
>>>> none of the JS or AS actually gets baked into the final JS so there
>>>>will
>>>> never be an <inject_html> tag found by the scan.
>>>
>>> I know that, that's why I'm proposing other mechanisms.
>>>
>>> I just created a HtmlContainer.swc with the simple extern JS based
>>>function I shown before to load multiple scripts, adding this lib in my
>>>project, I can now use it to import the jQuery JS library or any other
>>>from inside the AS code, rebuild, and it will work from the generated
>>>index.html, like that:
>>>
>>> private static const JQUERY_SCRIPT:String =
>>>'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js';
>>>
>>> public function start():void {
>>> HtmlContainer.load([JQUERY_SCRIPT], init);
>>> }
>>>
>>> private function init():void {
>>> const button:Element = document.createElement("button");
>>> button.onclick = function ():void {
>>> alert("Hello browser from FalconJX!");
>>> };
>>> button.textContent = "Say Hello";
>>> document.body.appendChild(button);
>>>
>>> var div:HTMLDivElement = document.createElement("DIV") as
>>>HTMLDivElement;
>>>
>>> $(document.body).append(div).ready(function():void {
>>> $(div).html("This is Hello World by JQuery");
>>> $(div).css("border", "2px solid green");
>>> $(div).insertBefore(button);
>>> });
>>> }
>>>
>>> Frédéric THOMAS
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> From: aha...@adobe.com
>>>> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [FalconJX FlexJS] JQuery up and running, a nightmare but
>>>>we now have 1.9 in AS
>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:06:32 +0000
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/23/15, 8:53 AM, "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>Playing with the externs, we've seen that in order to customize our
>>>>>index.html (adding a Script tag for JQuery for example) we had to
>>>>>create
>>>>>another index.html outside the build folder referencing our main .js
>>>>>because the original one was overridden each time we built, so,
>>>>>instead
>>>>>of doing that, I was looking for a way to write our Script tag from AS
>>>>>which is not possible at the moment and we haven't got a template
>>>>>index
>>>>>to use neither.
>>>>>
>>>>>ok, IIUC, the goal of having externs is to ease the implementation of
>>>>>as/js components giving the possibility to implement them in AS and
>>>>>use
>>>>>the generated JS as JS source of the new FlexJS component, so, we
>>>>>can, in
>>>>>the generated JS, add a comment to load a JS Script or CS.
>>>>>
>>>>>But still, if I look at the jQuerySample.mxml, I can see something
>>>>>that
>>>>>should be done at each build, not every user friendly:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>So, my goal was to simplify link and script tags either making them
>>>>>accessible from the AS via a MataTag for example or having an utility
>>>>>class to download dynamically those resources and add them to the
>>>>>head of
>>>>>the html application container.
>>>>>
>>>>>Am I clearer ? Did I miss something ? Is that a bad direction ?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I think I get it. Actually, that comment in JQuerySample.mxml is
>>>> obsolete. The org.apache.flex.jquery.Application.js has <inject_html>
>>>> tags in a comment in that file, and GoogDepsWriter.java and
>>>> MXMLFlexJSPublisher.java find it and add it to the index.html. That is
>>>> how FlexJS handles bootstrapping JS frameworks.
>>>>
>>>> It just occurred to me that you can’t use this sort of mechanism
>>>>because
>>>> none of the JS or AS actually gets baked into the final JS so there
>>>>will
>>>> never be an <inject_html> tag found by the scan.
>>>>
>>>> The reason it works for FlexJS is because some non-extern class like
>>>> Application has to be used in the app. If you create your own Jquery
>>>> Application that folks must subclass in their apps then you can use
>>>>the
>>>> same mechanism. Otherwise, you probably need to invent a new
>>>>mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> One idea I considered was this: Right now in any SDK there is a
>>>> flex-config.xml and an air-config.xml and often an
>>>>airmobile-config.xml.
>>>> These configs specify a set of libraries and other settings. We could
>>>> create a js-config.xml and jquery-config.xml and figure out a way to
>>>>tell
>>>> the compiler in the -config.xml what to inject into the .html. Then
>>>>in FB
>>>> and elsewhere, you can switch by adding +configname=js or
>>>> +configname=jquery just like we do +configname=air
>>>>
>>>> I’m sure there are other ways as well.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> -Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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