Thanks, Tucker. <when runtime="swf9"> does indeed work. :)
I was irritated by an old comment left in drawview.lzx from Jim:
</when>
<otherwise>
<!-- TODO [jgrandy 6/1/2007] <otherwise> should be <when
runtime="as2"> but that isn't currently supported -->
<script when="immediate"><![CDATA[
Guess that comment should be changed then. Max?
- Raju
Am 15.07.2008 16:53 Uhr schrieb "P T Withington" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> <when runtime="swf9"> does not work?
>
> Is there a bug filed for 'if at top level'? I think that is an
> arbitrary restriction in the compiler that was meant to avoid bugs but
> instead is just preventing useful patterns.
>
> On 2008-07-15, at 02:13EDT, Raju Bitter wrote:
>
>> Henry,
>>
>> based on your advice I've come up with a wrapper class for the problem
>> with prototypes and the NetConnection in rtmpconnection.lzx. If it's
>> $swf9 I use a dynamic wrapper class for the NetConnection object:
>>
>> // For $swf9 it's not possible to use the prototpye approach with
>> // _nc since NetConnection is not a dynamic class.
>> if ($swf9) {
>> this._nc = new NetConnectionWrapper();
>> } else {
>> // $swf8 or $swf7
>> this._nc = new NetConnection();
>> }
>> ...
>> var t = this;
>> this._nc.onStatus = function(info) {
>> this.t._onStatus(info);
>> }
>> // Local reference to rtmpconnection.
>> // For some reason this cannot be done as a closure (in FP7).
>> // See bug lpp-2197.
>> this._nc.t = this;
>> ;
>> Here's what the wrapper class looks like right now:
>> <library>
>> <switch>
>> <when runtime="dhtml">
>> <!-- no RTMP support in DHTML mode -->
>> </when>
>> <otherwise>
>> <!-- really need to to
>> <when runtime="as3">
>> here -->
>> <script when="immediate"><![CDATA[
>> dynamic public class NetConnectionWrapper extends NetConnection {
>> if ($swf9) {
>> #passthrough (toplevel:true) {
>> import flash.net.NetConnection;
>> }#
>> }
>>
>> public var nc:NetConnection = null;
>> public var t = null;
>>
>> public function NetConnectionWrapper (arg=null) {
>> super();
>>
>> }
>> }
>> ]]></script>
>> </otherwise>
>> </switch>
>> </library>
>>
>> With that approach I'm fine for the swf9 runtime but of course run
>> into problems for swf8. There's no way to put the whole class
>> structure in an
>>
>> if ($swf9) { dynamic public class NetConnectionWrapper extends
>> NetConnection { ... } }
>>
>> construct since "if" ist no allowed at top level. The only solution I
>> see is to support <when runtime="as3"> syntax which would make things
>> a lot easier in many situations (like: adding swf9 specific content
>> inside tag based classes, which is right now limited to code blocks in
>> methods only (when tag not allowed inside classes, script tag not
>> allowed, import statements can not be inserted into LZX tag based
>> classes).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raju
>
