Thought i'd share this. Found it amusing.
I've been using Zinc for a while and for the most part i have no
complaints, since most i use it for is simply blocking alt+f4 and escape
(kiosk apps). Recently however i had a requirement to play a high
quality movie, so i thought cool, i get to use the MediaPlayer9
functionality (which for the uninitiated basically drops an instance of
windows media player 9 on top of the flash window and gives you
callbacks for it).
So i need functionality for checking when playback has ended, and i find
it in the event onWMP9ChangeState, which according to the docs is
described as such:
usage-
mpInstance.onWMP9ChangeState:Function
parameters-
newState:Number
I hook up a listener, put a switch/case in it for newState and.. Nothing
happens. I read up the docs again and in the example, what the event
actually passes is an object with a newState *parameter*. Ok cool,
whatever, i change my switch conditional to accomodate this new
fantastic knowledge, and... Still nothing.
At this point i'm a little stressed out, and i put an
mdm.Dialogs.prompt(obj.newState) to see what happens, and indeed, the
event does fire, the prompt looks like what i expected it to, but still
the switch/case doesn't work properly.
So i'm tearing my hair out for a bit, until i somehow put
typeof(obj.newState) in a prompt, and.. Yep. It's a string.
So here we have docs that describe the parameter passed from an event as
a number, but in fact is an object, containing a parameter that is the
number. As a string.
I'm not entirely sure what this means, but it actually made me laugh out
loud. Putting a parseInt(obj.newState) solved my problem.
For the love of god MDM, if any of you guys are on this list, fix your
docs. PLEASE.
For everyone else, you have been warned about the docs :P Consider them
hints, not information.
- A
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