Being able to ensure that a particular file gets copied to the output folder when the class is used would be really nice. JS, CSS, and images would all be useful.
-- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 2:11 PM Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 1/6/20, 12:45 PM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes. JS specific. > > It would be very hard to do a SWF compatible build of Spectrum. > > So to me, this isn't so much about CSS as it is about externs. CSS that > is processed by the compiler is intended for multi-platform CSS. > Multi-platform CSS is encoded for use by ValuesManager and implementations > on other platforms. As Carlos noted in a recent thread, CSS is sort of > downloaded twice by Royale JS output, once in its .css file form for > consumption by the browser, and a second time as encoded CSS for use by the > framework and application code. That avoids having the framework code call > getComputedStyles() and allows non-comforming CSS like > ClassReference("SomeBead"). Although there certainly could be a better way > to handle this. > > On the other hand, the inject_html and externs are about 3rd-party or > external JS implementations. There have been other threads about how to > handle inject_html and have it inject local references to .js files. Right > now I think all inject_html use cases reference code on a CDN or some > canonical URL on the internet. It feels like this is the same problem and > why you started by asking about inject_html. You don't really need the > compiler to look at this CSS, you really want some amount of css and/or js > (and maybe even html) to be linked into the output instead of referenced by > URL. Although it sounds like you are also looking to aggregate these bits > and pieces of external css or js into fewer files. > > So I recommend approaching the problem in two pieces: 1) what is the best > way to add js and css to the output files and 2) once you have some set, > can you aggregate it into fewer files? > > Problem #2 sounds straightforward: search the output folder and combine > files. I guess it might be important what order you combine CSS files. > > For Problem #1, instead of inject_html we could add something like > "include_file" that would reference a file in a SWC. Then folks could have > images, css, js, whatever, added to the output file. I think that wouldn't > be too hard to do. There is already code in the compiler copying stuff out > of a SWC > > My 2 cents, > -Alex > > > On Jan 6, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > But is that CSS platform-specific, or will that same CSS be needed > if you were to try to implement Spectrum in SWF? IMO, that's a key > question for how we solve this problem. > > > >
