Evaldas Taroza wrote:
Hi,
I am starting with OL. I decided to create a simple chat application,
based on XMPP, in order to play a bit with OL. In XMPP peers normally
communicate using sockets, so the chat would leverage the flash runtime
only.
However, everywhere I try to find out how to do flash stuff with OL I
stumble on comments that I should consider using Actionscript and Flex
instead, because the power of OL is the portability...
I really want to play with OL, but apparently I will need to reach some
flash related interfaces. Moreover, there are libraries like XIFF
written in Actionscript.
So several questions:
1. Considering that I need only flash runtime how can I use available
Actionscript libraries inside my LZX scripts?
There is a <script/> tag that you can use to embed existing scripts.
2. Is it reasonable to choose OL for my described app? Maybe Flex is a
better choice?
OpenLaszlo will work fine.
3. How much flash API can I reach from OL scripts? How can I export
flash APIs to be available in OL?
The drawview tag is a good example of integrating Laszlo with
actionscript. It exposes the Actionscript drawing APIs as OpenLaszlo
methods. It's built into the distribution and can be found here:
http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/lps/components/extensions/drawview.lzx
Thanks for help.
Evaldas
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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
