I'm excited to hear what you find as I'm interested in these issues as well.
I can provide partial help regarding 3 and 4 below:
Mike Pence wrote:
Hey guys,
I am happy to be having some work to do with Laszlo after too-long of
an absence.
A few questions for the applet I am currently working on, which I am
hoping someone can help me out with:
1. Is there a file open dialog function for Laszlo? I want users to be
able to select an image file to use off of their local drive.
2. Is there any boilerplate code for offering a font selection dialog
or dropdown?
3. What about explicit z-order manipulation? Z-order seems to
currently be determined by order of view creation, with newer views
atop older views.
The only way to explicitly change z-order that I know of is the
bringToFront() method (I believe there is a sendToBack() method as
well). Other than that, I've noticed the exact same behavior as you
regarding new views being placed above older views.
4. Once users have finished doing some image scaling and arranging, I
want to be able to capture their work and save it as a jpg or png --
the autmated equivalent of a screen grab or capture. Is there an easy
way to do this, like canvas.saveRectToFile (wishful thinking,
probably).
I would be ecstatic if there were some way to do this. If there is,
please let us know, someone! :) In an app I'm working on, I need
similar functionality. What I'm planning on doing is using iText to
create PDFs from the coordinates and resource files/text snippets
created by the user in the OL app. Of course, I need to create
vector-based PDFs suitable for printing. It may be easier to do with a
different app (e.g. ImageMagick) if you only need a raster-based solution.
Let me know what you find! :)
-Rich
5. How are ActionScript methods called form OL?
Thanks for any pointers. I will be spending the next several hours
figuring these things out. I will post results here, unless somebody
wants to beat me to it.
Best,
Mike Pence
