Henry and PT,
Thanks for all the great pointers. I'm sure this is going to be more
than enough to keep me going for a bit, I'll poke around and let you
know how things go. To be clear we're scoping out possibilities right
now, there's lots of hurdles to get through before we can even think
of deploying Flash 9, so don't expect any changes soon. Fingers
crossed, though. I guesstimated 2 weeks work, I'm about 2 days in,
which puts me well ahead of schedule. :)
Thanks,
-Neil
On Oct 28, 2009, at 5:41 PM, P T Withington wrote:
Hey Neil, hi!
Hopefully you have already seen: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/SWF9_Conversion
You might want to read the latest copy of "OpenLaszlo <view>":
http://openlaszlo.org/misc/OpenLaszloView103109.pdf
We've spiffed up our debugger in the latest trunk build so that it
_should_ be more helpful than what is available in 4.6.1. So, you
might want to try a nightly build (from http://download.openlaszlo.org/nightly/trunk/)
.
Alternatively, you can try using the flex debugger, fdb. Henry (cc-
ed) can fill you in on the details of that. If you lzc --debug
there should also be annotations in the intermediate files that
should point you back to your original source.
Finally, you can set compiler.catcherrors=true in WEB-INF/lps/config/
lps.properties (it's commented out in the distribution by default),
and this will make swf9 act a bit more like swf8 by catching and
ignoring any errors. Not recommended, but sometimes needed as a
last resort. (In the nightlies, essentially a debug compile catches
all errors and reports them in a way that you can relate back to
your LZX source).
Let us know how it goes. We need more 'big' swf9 projects, and
always glad to help out Pandora. :)
On 2009-10-28, at 18:14, Neil Mix wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm attempting to port a very oooold Laszlo project to 4.6.1, swf9
runtime. The project is compiling successfully, but when I run the
app it fails early on during startup. No errors are showing up in
the debug window, but the handy debug Flash is logging the
following stack trace:
TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
at <anonymous>()[/private/var/folders/Af/AfhEQDevFwaKcP77YUvST+++
+TI/-Tmp-/lzswf9/Users/nmix/sbwork/neil-8.9-flash-upgrade/
SavageBeast/Engineering/projects/radio/src/flash/TMP_ANT/pandora/
build/tuner/LzApplication.as:16907]
at <anonymous>()[/private/var/folders/Af/AfhEQDevFwaKcP77YUvST+++
+TI/-Tmp-/lzswf9/Users/nmix/sbwork/neil-8.9-flash-upgrade/
SavageBeast/Engineering/projects/radio/src/flash/TMP_ANT/pandora/
build/tuner/LzApplication.as:17223]
at <anonymous>()[/private/var/folders/Af/AfhEQDevFwaKcP77YUvST+++
+TI/-Tmp-/lzswf9/Users/nmix/sbwork/neil-8.9-flash-upgrade/
SavageBeast/Engineering/projects/radio/src/flash/TMP_ANT/pandora/
build/tuner/LzApplication.as:17324]
at LzScript()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/LzScript.as:8]
at LzNode/makeChild()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/LzNode.as:866]
at LzInstantiatorService/makeSomeViews()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/
LzInstantiatorService.as:221]
at LzInstantiatorService/checkQ()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/
LzInstantiatorService.as:171]
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::call()
at LzEvent/sendEvent()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/LzEvent.as:89]
at LzIdleKernel$/__update()[/tmp/lzswf9/lzgen24517/LzIdleKernel.as:
19]
Now I recognize that Flex is the compiler underneath and this is an
intermediate auto-generated file. Finding the file and the source
of the bug is not very hard. But this is almost certainly the
first of many such errors I need to fix. It would be great if I
could automatically tie this back to the original source file/
line. Is it normal for errors like this not to show up in the
Debug window? Is there anything I'm doing wrong that prevents me
from seeing the original source file/line?
A couple facts about my setup that could influence things:
- I'm compiling from the command-line
- As you can probably see, the app is pretty dang big
Thanks for any advice,
-Neil
