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OpenLaszlo: how you get there is more important than where you are going

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments · OpenLaszlo

WHAT BROKE This is the old version of the method.  It finds some specific views and scans their datapaths, to see if any entries match.  This version mostly worked fine, but occassionally it would fail, and finding the cause of the failure was proving difficult.     <method name="check_ok" args="from, to">         <![CDATA[         for (var [...]

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OpenLaszlo: saving LzLoader

August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · OpenLaszlo

One thing that tripped me up early on is a know bug in the OpenLaszlo loader.  Basically, if a view is destroyed before the resource completes loading, then the loader chokes and nothing more is heard from it.  Unsurprisingly, this is very very bad. The bug is documented here:     bug: destroy before resource is [...]

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OpenLaszlo: who’s watching the loader?

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments · OpenLaszlo

Being able to see when LzLoader is active is very useful when an application is under development. The following code displays “Loading” whenever the loader is active. The display is text. The text has an ‘id’ of ‘loading’ and ‘visibility’ set to false. <text id="loading" x="10" y="10" visible="false"     fontsize="12" fgcolor="white" fontstyle="bold">   Loading </text> The display [...]

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OpenLaszlo: source code examples

August 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · OpenLaszlo

This is a short by-no-means-exhaustive list of freely available OpenLaszlo source code, for all those out there who like to steal learn from other people’s work. OpenLaszlo “official” demos Here you will find a range of interactive demos showing some of what OpenLaszlo makes possible. www OpenLaszlo Incubator Project The Incubator directory contains components and [...]

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