[screenweaver] ping

[Michael Stuhr]

Martijn de Visser schrieb:

>Good to have you on the list, Michael!
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Heja!

>Not all, thanks for your thoughts. We indeed should move to AS2, which 
>is also why I want to rebuild the whole thing from scratch.
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AS2 is not a religion for me. i just put it in there to suit all those 
geek needs :-)
Sometimes it's easier when you do AS1.

> Also, by 
>creating seperate classes, maintainability should be improved a lot. 
>Like I said, the AS1 code I wrote back then isn't exaclty a masterpiece 
>oif art :-)
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Well, it worked. That's what it should do, right ? And all i have to add 
to that is: That's when you do closed source:
you can do what you want, as long as it works; nobody will ever see it 
:-), and it's qay, i mean way better than most of what i did, just to 
make that clear.

>I also want to generate the Editor GUI via XML to further improve 
>maintainability.
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That's what i thought too. I thought of this GUI like an extended Winamp 
skin :-)

Let me clear my thoughts: When we have a core engine running (just a 
bunch of AS classes, some Methods) we need to parse the xml to connect 
the UI-Clip(s) with the API (core). So we'd need a core.swf and an 
ui.swf, and a xml right ?

But can we generalize support for multiple Frameworks ? I firstly 
thought of supporting V2 Components; although some of them are hardly to 
skin, they provide a solid base. i'd prefer some OS-UI, but apart from 
BBC Components which i've never used, i see no low level usage 
Component-pack, or did i miss sth ?

I'm sorry, but cannot get my mind clear right now, we had 35° C today, 
and i've been working 7 hours in the sun; building a shelter for the 
kids' car fleet :-) now i'm drinking a cool beer, longing to play some 
FIFA;

sorry
micha

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Some loose thoughts:

xml could read like this:

<UI id="0000">
    <Label id="0001" x="10" y="10">
       <text><![CADATA[<b>A Label</b>]]></text>
    </Label>
    <Fieldset id="0002">
       <Legend id="0003"><![CADATA[<b>Some UI things</b>]]></Legend>
       <Button type="toggle" id="0004" x="10" y="30">
          <label><![CADATA[<b>A Button Label</b>]]></label>
       </Button>
       <!-- etc pp. -->
    </Fieldset>
</UI>

UI is needed as root, but every childnode's NodeName should be the 
identifier of a clip inside ui.swf. The id's would come into game like, 
if we'd have a List of id's (each stands for a function / method of our 
API) in the core ...
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