So, I've been banging my head against two different issues that turned
out to have the same root cause: problems setting the volume of a
loaded movieclip, and problems getting a custom class to initialize.
After a few days of frustration, I stripped the LFC down to only include
the files I'm working with and decompiled them. Here's what I found:
This source:
var s = new Sound(t);
Compiles to this:
var v1 = Sound.make(t);
Since Sound is a built-in object, it doesn't have a make() method.
Here's another one:
HelloWorld = function (){
alert('say hello!')
}
HelloWorld.sayHello = function(msg){
return "FLASH: Message received from JavaScript was: " + msg;
}
helloWorld = new HelloWorld();
Compiles to:
with (_root) {
}
HelloWorld = function () {
alert('say hello!')
};
with (_root) {
}
HelloWorld.sayHello = function (msg) {
return 'FLASH: Message received from JavaScript was: ' + msg;
};
helloWorld = HelloWorld.make();
Notice that there's one of these before each function declaration:
with (_root) {
}
I'm using the flare tool to decompile the swfs:
http://www.nowrap.de/flare.html
It seems like the compiler is going overboard assuming every 'new foo()'
means make a new Laszlo class called 'foo'. Let me know what you find!
-Max
