On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:22:00PM +0200, Udo Giacomozzi wrote: > Hello strk, > > Thursday, April 19, 2007, 12:06:02 PM, you wrote: > s> Ehm.. how we discussed on the mailing list, the problem > s> is that ::restart is not properly documented. > > Who has enough knowledge about the function to do it? > > I *think* it should restore the state of the character in which it was > after creation (or after it has been placed on a display list).
Does this mean also calling onLoad and onConstruct events ? What about frame init actions ? > This > would make sense for the button instance which holds a list of > character instances. These character instances are kept permanently in > memory, even if the character is not visible on stage (for example, > becomes visible on mouseover). Upon mouseover the character becomes > part of the stage and is restart()ed to act as if it were just > created. Why not really recreating it ? Do we need to retain syntetized instance names ? > This is how the button instance seems to work. However, this is just > my assumption and I can't document that function before someone else > confirms it. I can describe what the function does, but I'm not sure it makes sense, we're not reverse engeneering Gnash itself :) > s> If it is only for the GUI we're likely not sufficiently cleaning up. > s> If it's for the buttons, we're cleaning too much. > > What do you mean with "for the GUI" ?? I used ::restart for the GUI menu item MovieControl->Restart. Might be a completely wrong thing to do and we might instead remove the top-level movie and recreate from scratch instead. --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
