mx:String is special-cased in the compiler.
File an enhancement request at http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish
for the do-not-parse capability. Currently the backslash technique you found
is the only way to do it if I remember right.
Matt
From: Erik Westra
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
1:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Execute
code before any component is put on the stage
Yeah I thought of that solution too. What works too is escape the {and
}.
Mx:String is not a actionscript class as faras I
can tell, if it was I
could simply subclass it...
Just wondering: how hard would it be to add a tag
to flex that wont
parse the content passed with a source attribute?
Greetz Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Eismann
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Sent: dinsdag 22 februari 2005 10:32
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Execute code before any
component is put on
the stage
Hi Erik,
the only way of compiling external files into a
Flex app I know of is to
use the "source" attribute of the
Script, Style, Model or XML tags.
Maybe the last one works for you if you do
something like this (not
tested, just an idea):
1) Define an external XML file with just onenode.
This node is a CDATA
node that won't get parsed as XML.
2) Place your CSS definitions into this CDATA
block.
3) Pull the file into your app during compile time
with the mx:XML tag
and parse it afterwards
<!-- inside your mxml file -->
<mx:XML id="styleData"
source="externalCSS.xml" >
<!-- externalCSS.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
<style>
<![CDATA[
myStyle {
font-size: 42;
font-weight: bold;
}
]]>
</style>
You'll then have to parse the CDATA part by your
self, of course.
Dirk.
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Westra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:17 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Execute code before any
component is put on
the stage
Hmm, this is an interesting idea.
I still have one small problem though. When i use
this MXMLObject
interface my code will be run before the visual
mxml components, right?
But in the code i need to load an external ini
file, wich could take
some time. When its loaded, some visual components
mich be on
the stage.
A possible solution was to use the
<mx:String> tag. This way the content
would be included in the swf.
There is however one problem with the
<mx:String> tag, it tries to parse
the string thats in the source. And with css
files, { and } are pretty
common...
So is there a way to include a string in a flex
application (compile
time) without having it parsed?
Greetz Erik
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