gmane.comp.java.openlaszlo.devel

using TLF framework in edittext loses focus?

augusto callejas — 2012-05-22T22:58:19

hi-

i'm writing a custom edittext class that formats my text based on input.  included here is a simplified version that separates text by dashes.
the screenshot shows two instances of my class, one with "hasdirectionallayout" not set and another with "hasdirectionallayout" set to true:

  http://i.imgur.com/AoBSN.png

the first editext instance shows the proper behavior: you type a character, the character is displayed and appends a "-", and sets the selection position at the end of the field, where you can continue typing more characters.

the second edittext instance shows incorrect behavior: you type a character, the character is displayed and appends a "-", but it doesn't set the selection position at the end of the field - it loses focus, so you can't type into the edittext unless you click back into it.

two points to make:

1) setting "hasdirectionallayout=true" changes the behavior of the edittext, which seems wrong.
2) my general approach of overriding "setValue" in order to format my text may not

Safari 5.1.7 for Lion and Snow Leopard disableout-of-date Flash Players

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-14T22:57:28

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5271
Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Lion and Safari 5.1.7 for OS X Snow Leopard
disable out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player.

Out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player do not include the latest
security updates and will be disabled to help keep your Mac secure. If
Safari 5.1.7 detects an out-of-date version of Flash Player on your
system, you will see a dialog informing you that Flash Player has been
disabled. The dialog provides the option to go directly to Adobe's
website, where you can download and install an updated version of
Flash Player.

IRC chat channel for OpenLaszlo community?

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-14T09:01:58

Do any of you use IRC at all? We could use the IRC channel
irc://irc.freenode.org/#openlaszlo for project/community members.
Laszlo originally used irc://irc.freenode.org/#laszlo

but I'd prefer using the channel #openlaszlo instead.

- Raju

Mage+ / Magento: Another example of an enterprise open source software fork

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-12T10:55:33

The Magento community just forked the Magento e-commerce system under
the new name Mage+:
http://www.mageplus.org/

Back in 2010, eBay acquired 49% of Magento, and last year they
acquired the remaining 51%. This year the Magento CTO left the
company, and here are some of the reasons for his decision:
"I will answer and give much more information over the next few weeks
as to the reasons I had to leave Magento. As for now I can say that
(very) short term I would not be worried about the ‘open’ part of
Magento, but as I have learned eBay and the folks at X.commerce don’t
really understand the meaning of open and have a hard time explaining
and defining it to them selves and to others. As such, long term, it
would be very interesting to see if Magento will continue to stay open
in the manor the people behind Magento and I meant it to be."
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/recently-departed-magento-cto-and-co-founder-ebay-doesnt-understand-the-meaning-of-open/

I have the same feeling about Laszlo, since th

Preliminary release of Apache Flex 4.8 available fordownload

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-11T12:42:43

The Apache Flex project has created a preliminary release of Apache
Flex 4.8, which should be compatible with the Adobe Flex 4.6 SDK:
http://people.apache.org/~cframpton/ApacheFlexRC/

Apache Flex 4.8.0 is a parity release from Apache of Adobe Flex 4.6.

inputtext and bidirectional text bug (openlaszlo5.0.x-19545)

augusto callejas — 2012-05-10T05:32:03

hi-

i want to enable bidirectional support on an input field via a constraint, but i'm unable to.  consider this code:

====
<canvas width="100%" height="100%">
        <attribute name="flag" type="boolean" value="true"/>
        <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="10"/>
        <inputtext hasdirectionallayout="true" direction="rtl" bgcolor="green" textalign="right"/>
        <inputtext hasdirectionallayout="${canvas.flag}" direction="rtl" bgcolor="red" textalign="right"/>
</canvas>
====

this code displays two inputtext views, one green and one red.  the green one has "hasdirectionallayout" set to true,
while the green one has "hasdirectionallayout" set to a constraint, which equals true.  they should both act the same,
but they don't:

green: while typing text, the blinking cursor stays to the left of the text (expected behavior)
red: while typing type, the blinking cursor stays to the right of the text (unexpected behavior)

if others believe this is a bug, i can file a jira issue on it.  if others have any

Nightly builds & DHTML

augusto callejas — 2012-05-10T00:27:18

hi-

i noticed that it was mentioned that DHTML generation was broken, and then fixed in the discussion here:

  http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=48430

i did a subversion checkout of the latest (Last Changed Rev: 19597) and build the server from source, but i still get the
following error:

  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'Object' of undefined

is there a specific subversion revision where this was fixed?

thanks,
augusto.

Bug within Flex compiler integration when including application specific SWCs

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-08T17:21:47

There's a small bug within SWF9External.java, where the Flex
compilation process is looking for a possible "flexlib" folder in the
wrong directory. If that would be fixed, SWCs would not have to be
added to the WEB-INF/flexlib folder, but could be in a "flexlib"
subfolder relative to the canvas LZX file (main application file).
http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-10183

I only need to solve one problem for that: is there a way to access
the absolute path of the folder containing the canvas LZX file from
within the SWF9External class?

-  Raju

Correct value for < at >subtopic in swf11 kernel

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-06T09:28:27

What should the < at >subtopic value in the SWFx kernel be. Some file use

  * < at >topic Kernel
  * < at >subtopic AS3

some use

  * < at >topic Kernel
  * < at >subtopic swf9

Is there any rule for saying a < at >subtopic is bound to a specific SWF
runtime, or to the AS3 based runtimes in general?

- Raju

svn-updatechange, svn-review and copied SVN folder

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-05T17:04:40

It seems that the svn-updatechange command does not treat folders
copied using "svn cp" correctly. Only modified files are added to the
TAR file containing the file changes.

For the Flex SDK integration, I copied the WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/swf9
folder to WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/swf11, but all the files which are
copied and not modified will not be included in the changeset.

Is there an elegant way to solve this, or do I have to add every file
single-handedly?

Thanks,
Raju

[Laszlo-reviews] For Review: Change raju-20120505-B1b Summary: Upgrade the Flex 4.5.0 SDK to 4.5.1 and add Flex SDK 4.6 with swf11 runtime

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-05T16:52:40

Summary: Upgrade the Flex 4.5.0 SDK to 4.5.1 and add Flex SDK 4.6 with
swf11 runtime

New Features: swf11 runtime added, swf10 runtime uses Flex SDK 4.5.1

Bugs Fixed:LPP-9903,LPP-10170,LPP-10175

Technical Reviewer: fguo< at >laszlosystems.com
QA Reviewer: (pending)
Doc Reviewer: (pending)

Documentation:

Release Notes:
Flash 11.1/swf11 runtime with Flex SDK 4.6.0 added, swf10 runtime now
uses Flex SDK 4.5.1

Overview:
The LPS now supports compiling an ActionScript3 based application for
Flash Player 11.1 (SWF file format version no. 14). To support the
swf11 runtime, the Flex 4.6.0 SDK had to be added. To still support
the swf10 runtime, the Flex SDK integration now supports multiple SDKs
installations with the WEB-INF/flexsdk folder.


Details:
The changes are documented in the following Google Doc
http://bit.ly/IIzlNj


Tests:
Run the Ant megatest target. All tests should now be executed for the
swf10 and swf11 runtime.
Run the LZX unit test at /test/swf11/swf11_lzunittest.lzx only with
the swf11 runtime.

F

LzView.setSource & mp3s while compiling HTML5(openlaszlo 4.9.0)

augusto callejas — 2012-05-02T21:51:14

hi-

in the view class:

  http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps4.9/docs/reference/lz.view.html

there is the method setSource:

  view.setSource(source : String, cache : String, headers : String, filetype : String);

the documentation states that the last argument can be a file type, like "mp3" or "jpg".

i call the setSource method on an existing view, with the filetype as "mp3":

  notifyMP3.setSource("../../resources/notify.mp3", "none", "", "mp3");

using chrome's javascript console, i see the following warning:

  Resource interpreted as Image but transferred with MIME type audio/x-mpeg: "http://localhost:8080/resources/notify.mp3

despite me specifying the filetype "mp3", its being interpreted by the generated javascript code as an image.

how do i use LzView.setSource with mp3s correctly?

thanks,
augusto.

Results of the OpenLaszlo 2012 community survey,43 people have participated

Raju Bitter — 2012-05-02T11:17:46

Hi all,

of the "25.000 member" former members of the  OpenLaszlo community
(those were number which Laszlo has been circulating a while ago) 43
have filled out the survey, and I'm glad that we got more than 40
people participating. Thanks to all of you!

Just a few results of the survey to get you interested in downloading the PDF:

Members per country:
United States 14
Germany 8
United Kingdom 4
China 3
Italy 2
Japan 2
Argentina 1
Belgium 1
Canada 1
Chile 1
Finland 1
France 1
Netherlands 1
Portugal 1
Romania 1
Sweden 1
Singapore 1

More than 56% / 25 community members have started using OpenLaszlo in
2006 or earlier, with 16% or 7 people coding OpenLaszlo since 2009 or
later.

Versions used by the community:
61% use 4.9, 41% use 5.0 trunk by now. But there are still people
using 3.3, 3.4 or 4.0 and 4.1 (probably existing apps which will be
upgraded at some in time - something which a few people seem to be
doing right now).

Runtimes used:
dhtml  70.5%
swf10  65.9%
swf8  22.7%
mobile (dhtml) 15.9%
swf9  11.

SWF in DHTML

augusto callejas — 2012-04-30T20:02:35

hi-

there was a bug open about SWF in DHTML:

  http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7818

the last comment states there is a workaround:

 Amy Muntz added a comment - 15/Jul/09 04:28 PM
Has workaround. Downgrading

does anyone know what that workaround is?

thanks,
augusto.

What happened to the announced release "before the endof 2011"?

Raju Bitter — 2012-04-29T20:21:52

In October 2008, we were all relieved to read this message through Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/openlaszlo/status/122484627616178176
< at >Digiplex_BS Yes - we want to release before the eoy. You can see the
nightly build candidate (trunk) http://cot.ag/lFKJS8 ^AM

Now it's almost May, and no news whatsoever about the relase of OpenLaszlo 5.0?

Chris, any comment from you on this? You mentioned a possible release
by the end of 2009, when we met in March 2009. End of 2010 would have
been good looking at Laszlo's performance in the past years, but mid
2012? Come on...

Guess a VP of Engineering is not responsible for releasing software any more...

Raju

How many bugs need to be fixed until 5.0 can bereleased?

Raju Bitter — 2012-04-29T20:14:38

Is there any release plan for 5.0, where we can see  how many bugs
still need to fixed?

Thanks,
Raju

OL Forum

Nico Voss — 2012-04-28T08:57:28

Hello again,

I would like to post a question to the OL forum,
but I still don't have permission to post:

"Waterbottle2, you do not have permission to access this page."

Whom can I ask to fix my account? 

Thanks,
Nico

Forking OpenLaszlo - good open source projectmanagement software

Raju Bitter — 2012-04-27T17:17:44

What would be a good project management software for an OpenLaszlo
fork? I've been looking at this list:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-project-management-software.html

and liked the following products/services:

http://www.assembla.com/
http://www.indefero.net/
http://trac.edgewall.org/

At the consulting company I used to work (Optaros
http://www.optaros.com), we used a custom version of Trac, called
OForge:
http://code.optaros.com/trac/oforge/

But both Assembla and Indefero look interesting. Do any of you have
experiences with either Assembla or Indefero?

Thanks,
Raju

mouse events in loaded SWF app inside OL

Nico Voss — 2012-04-27T11:34:50

Hi all,

I'm using OpenLaszlo for a project since 4 years.
The last version I used was lps-4.9.0 before I tried
lps-trunk, provided by Raju recently (thanks again!).
So far it seems to me that lps-trunk is an improvement. In
particular, I was able to load a full Flex application swf
into the OL app, which was not possible before. It works
in Flash 10 as well as in 11. When I compile and/or modify
the Application such that I get an SWC similar to the
Google Map approach, then it doesn't work. But that's no
problem for me if the SWF way works.

There is still a problem though:

OpenLaszlo seems to capture or block certain mouse events.
When I add the SWF into myWindow.content.sprite (myWindow is 
instance of window class), most mouse actions work (e.g. Flex 
buttons), but some don't. Those that don't work seem to be 
related to dragging, but I'm not sure, since there is no 
source code for the complete application.
I observed further that when I add the SWF to myView.sprite
(myView is an instance of view), the

SWF11 servlet WAR available for testing

Raju Bitter — 2012-04-23T11:59:17

I've uploaded a pre-built WAR file of OpenLaszlo with SWF11 runtime to
Rapidshare:
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|9|3375343577|trunk-swf11-servlet.war|119993

This version passes the "megatest"  Ant target without failures (based
on the SDK upgrade applied to revision 19574).

After deploying the app, you manually have to set the permissions on
the mxmlc, compc and fdb command, using the following bash commands:
cd $LPS_HOME
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.5.1/bin/mxmlc*
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.6.0/bin/mxmlc*
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.5.1/bin/compc*
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.6.0/bin/compc*
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.5.1/bin/fdb*
chmod +x WEB-INF/flexsdk/4.6.0/bin/fdb*

Happy testing,

Raju

To the Critical Path Management: What kind of commitment to OpenLaszlo can we expect from Critical Path?

Raju Bitter — 2012-04-20T12:19:15

To the Critical Path and Laszlo management,

A few months ago we could read about the acquisition of Laszlo Systems
by Critical Path. Then, a few weeks ago, the new owner of the
OpenLaszlo technology put the following announcement on the
OpenLaszlo.org website.
"CP is committed to continued sponsorship of the OpenLaszlo Open
Source project and its global community."

As a long-time supporter and committer to the OpenLaszlo project I
have witnessed the deteriorating state of a once active and promising
open source RIA platform in the past years. Since there have been
growing doubts in the community about the willingness or ability of
Laszlo to sponsor the OpenLaszlo project in such a way, that the
required development work and QA is still executed, I would welcome a
more detailed announcement of how Critical Path plans to sponsor the
OpenLaszlo project.

As a project committer I'm still willing to contribute to the project,
and such community contributions can be of great value: I've just
added an swf11 runti