The last comment here :
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=compilers_21.html
looks quite relevant to my question as far as I can tell :
quote
Even better would be if I could use expressions in the conditionals themselves,
so that I could write in my code:
SECRET_NAMESPACE::target-player==9
private function
SECRET_NAMESPACE::target-player==10
private function...
Let's hope that this will be made easier in the future. And if that super
secret namespace exists and someone knows about it, please post it here.
/quote
I'm getting a bit more tempted to go another way whilst I still only have an
hour or so's (not uninteresting, mind you) work to write off though!
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Jim Hayes
Sent: Mon 05/01/2009 23:31
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Can I detect the flash player version targeted by the
compiler ( -target-player ? ) in my code
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it's late, I'm tired and all out of
brain cells :(
I have an application with largely common code base that gets compiled to both
AIR 1.5 (e.g. flash player 10) application and flash player in a web browser.
I keep a separate flexbuilder project for both, each project shares the common
code as an external code path. Normally I'll just use FB for debugging, to
compile a release I'll use ANT to pull in varying resources as necessary.
I now wish to add some flash player 10 features (pixel bender, specifically) to
the AIR app, but keep the online flash player version wholly flash player 9
compatible.
I'm not yet ready to serve up a different .swf based on the users player
version, I'm afraid, though I am thinking about it.
So, I've implemented a factory class to provide the relevant classes according
to the target, but can't quite put my hand on what I should test for.
Capabilities.version gives me run time info about the player version that the
user has, but not what the swf is compiled for.
What I'd really like is the player version targeted by the compiler (either by
the compiler argument -target-player or flexbuilder require flash player
version , if they are different.)
I'm quite tempted to add my own -define argument to the compiler since I'm
fairly sure that will do what I require, but if there is something already
there that I can use then I'd prefer to do so.
were I to go with my own define it would look something like this :
compiler argument something like -define=PLAYERCONFIG::ISPLAYER10,true
and in the factory something like this :
var imagingClassName:String = Flashplayer9compatibleClass;
PLAYERCONFIG::ISPLAYER10
{
imagingClassName = Flashplayer10compatibleClass;
}
// myClass:object = getClassBydefinition(imagingClassName ), return new
myClass() etc etc
Failing that, I can still achieve my aim by taking the factory class out of the
common code for each project and writing an implementation for each version,
but I was quite keen to go down the conditional route in this instance.
Many thanks in advance for any advice (comments to rtfm are very welcome if
they come complete with a url or a good hint as to where :) ).
I'm not totally convinced that I'm even heading in the right direction here
tbh, but at least if I knew how to do this then I could try it out for size.
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