okay I will search for a way in SWF9 and share what I found ... as soon as my projects are swf9 compatible, unfortunately that seems to be the bigger issue / fun part ^^.
thanks, sebastian 2009/7/13 P T Withington <[email protected]> > I think there is a good possibility of creating embeddable OL applications > for swf9+ because the laszlo application is compiled as a class. Similarly > for DHTML because the laszlo application is loaded into its own <iframe>. > There would still be work to be done to eliminate the use of the global > namespace. This has been done to a large extent (it is the purpose of the > `lz` object that now holds most LZX objects), but there are still some > global references that need to be cleaned up. > > The <html> tag is intended to allow you to embed arbitrary <html> content > into an OL app, and this tag has been improved, but not yet to the point > where you can embed another swf (Max will have more to say on this subject, > as he is the designer of the embedding system). > > Being able to dynamically load a module at run time is theoretically > possible. This is essentially how the debugger evaluates expressions in > swf: It creates a tiny module that is compiled against the application > module and then loaded into the application. This could be extended to > create dynamic loading. The current restriction on having to compile your > entire application at once (even modules that will be loaded later) is a > matter of bookkeeping in the compiler. (Henry may have more to say on this > subject, as he is the designer of the debugger compiler). > > Summary: we want to do all the things you suggest. We have just not had > the resources so far. As you know, the OL project has only a few financial > sponsors and they direct what the core team focuses on. Implementing > extensions like what you propose therefore either falls to the community, or > if there were a sponsor that required these features able to provide > funding, we could add resources to the core team. > > > On 2009-07-13, at 04:54EDT, Sebastian Wagner wrote: > > hi, >> >> a long term goal of many users is to embed their existing SWFs into an >> OpenLaszlo Application. >> Or the other way tound: To load a compiled OpenLaszlo SWF into ... weather >> and existing SWF compiled with Flex or into another OpenLaszlo SWF. >> >> Do you have plans for that kind of extension? >> It would be very useful in terms of Modularization to be able to compile >> and >> load Modules at runtime into a Core without the need to have those Modules >> all available while you are compiling the Core. So that you can load and >> initiate new Classes dynamically at Runtime. >> Or just compile a Core Product and ship Modules separated. >> >> I read some posts in the forums about loading a canvas into another but it >> does not seem to me that it was a solution to the problem. Does anyone >> work >> or have ideas of that kind of extension? >> I think the main Issue here is just that you have to load two canvas tags >> into another and have to register classes and assets at runtime. The >> *import* tag does something similar. The problem is just => The import tag >> still needs to code of the module to be available while you compile the >> core. So there is no real advantage in using this Tag compared to an >> *include* (if you ignore those Kbits that are loaded at runtime with >> import.load() instead of an initial include). >> >> So my idea for a workaround was: Is there a way of cheating the compiler >> by >> : >> 1) having a tiny container-class that is linked with an *import* tag >> 2) this gets compiled into the core >> 3) replace this compiled container-SWF at runtime with the actual module? >> the problem would be just that you still need the hole core to compile the >> module ... and some mystery if the this is going to work. >> >> >> Also the other way round is a bummer for users: They see a nice OpenLaszlo >> Application and want to integrate it into their existing Flex, Flash >> environment, but they can't as the canvas tag is not compatible for >> loading >> it into another SWF. >> >> >> thanks, >> sebastian >> >> -- >> Sebastian Wagner >> http://www.webbase-design.de >> http://openmeetings.googlecode.com >> http://www.laszlo-forum.de >> [email protected] >> > > -- Sebastian Wagner http://www.webbase-design.de http://openmeetings.googlecode.com http://www.laszlo-forum.de [email protected]
