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> On Jan 14, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Greg Dove <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> actually that's not right. It is still creating a binding which is
> returning the incorrect value, so not a direct value assignment.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:23 AM Greg Dove <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think it is close to working. Seems to be including backslashes when it
>> should not, and dropping second curly brace.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:18 AM Greg Dove <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried it yesterday, yes. I did not doublecheck that this morning though
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:16 AM Harbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you confirmed that the escape sequence which works in Flex doesn’t
>>>> in Royale?
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 14, 2020, at 10:14 PM, Greg Dove <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The escape sequence for binding that works in Flex, is single
>>>> backslash.
>>>>> I just quickly tested this now with <s:Label text="\{entry\}" />
>>>>>
>>>>> where entry was also defined locally as a [Bindable] in script block.
>>>>> That works.
>>>>>
>>>>> 'I think this is rare enough that we have bigger fish to fry even if
>>>> it is
>>>>> a bug.'
>>>>> I agree. I suggest we log this as an issue and put it on backlog.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 5:12 AM Alex Harui <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> IMO, the second example may not be escaped as we don't know the escape
>>>>>> sequence for binding. You have used an XML entity instead of the
>>>> brace,
>>>>>> but I think that immediately gets evaluated into the brace UTF-8
>>>> character
>>>>>> before parsing. These entities are required for compliant XML, but
>>>> don't
>>>>>> mark the characters for the parsing phase. It is similar to trying to
>>>>>> inject "\n" into strings in Java and other languages. The escape
>>>> sequence
>>>>>> might be \{ or {{ or something else, I don't know. Or there isn't a
>>>>>> sequence and we need to invent one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course, I could be wrong...
>>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/14/20, 12:14 AM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was escaped in the second example.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think this is rare enough that we have bigger fish to fry even
>>>> if it
>>>>>> is a bug.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jan 14, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Carlos Rovira <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think is a bug too.
>>>>>>> If you want to translate to plain text you must escape it, or better
>>>>>> make
>>>>>>> whole in a var in AS3 and display the value.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> El lun., 13 ene. 2020 a las 18:46, Alex Harui
>>>>>> (<[email protected]>)
>>>>>>> escribió:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If I understand the scenario correctly, I don't think that's a
>>>>>> bug. XML
>>>>>>>> characters are translated into UTF-8 characters which are then
>>>>>> parsed. The
>>>>>>>> MXML Compiler is scanning all values for binding expressions.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It would be a bug if there is no way to escape {} in a value so
>>>>>> that it
>>>>>>>> isn't seen as a binding expression. I honestly don't know if there
>>>>>> is a
>>>>>>>> way or not. I would check Flex documentation and use the Flex
>>>>>> compiler to
>>>>>>>> see if you can get {} to show up in a Flex label, then try the same
>>>>>> syntax
>>>>>>>> in Royale.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My 2 cents,
>>>>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 1/13/20, 4:31 AM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have the following markup:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <sp:Code text='<sp:AssetList dataProvider="{provider}"/>'
>>>>>>>> size="4" style="white-space:break-spaces;”/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I’m trying to display markup in the text property of a component.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It shoould be displayed as:
>>>>>>>> <sp:AssetList dataProvider="{provider}”/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But it’s displayed as:
>>>>>>>> <sp:AssetList dataProvider="[object Object],[object
>>>>>> Object],[object
>>>>>>>> Object]”/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It looks to me like the Royale compiler is evaluating the
>>>>>> brackets in
>>>>>>>> the text.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FWIW, I also tried:
>>>>>>>> <sp:Code text='<sp:AssetList
>>>>>>>> dataProvider="{provider}"/>' size="4"
>>>>>>>> style="white-space:break-spaces;"/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and got the same result.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think this is a bug. Thoughts?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Harbs
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Carlos Rovira
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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