[FALCON] linking resources to ByteArray (rather than display objects)

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

OK, sounds like there are issues with embedding.  It might also be helpful
to have JIRA issues to track these.

-Alex

On 12/30/14, 7:22 AM, "Left Right" <ol...@gmail.com> wrote:

>In addition to this, when linking symbols from other SWFs, the
>generated code must be incorrectly generated. The class below:
>
>package com.powtoon.assets
>{
>    import flash.display.Sprite;
>
>    [Embed(source="../../../../assets/WistiaPlayer2.swf",
>        symbol="com.powtoon.assets.Scrubber")]
>
>    public class HandleButton extends Sprite { }
>}
>
>When instantiated ends up in:
>
>Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred.
>at flash.display::Shape()
>at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
>at flash.display::Sprite()
>at com.powtoon.assets::HandleButton()
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/ensureProperty()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player/
>player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:710]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/create()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player/player/a
>s3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:349]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::ScrubberPanel/create()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player/pla
>yer/as3/com/powtoon/ui/ScrubberPanel.as:251]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::ExtendedPresentationPanel/create()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/h
>x-player/player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/ExtendedPresentationPanel.as:207]
>at 
>com.powtoon.player::PlayerBase/setupSkin()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player
>/player/as3/com/powtoon/player/PlayerBase.as:594]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/tryCreateDescription()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-p
>layer/player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:440]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/loadDescriptionClass()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-p
>layer/player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:473]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/loadDescriptionString()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-
>player/player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:422]
>at 
>com.powtoon.ui::Stylable/loadDescription()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player
>/player/as3/com/powtoon/ui/Stylable.as:390]
>at 
>com.powtoon.player::PlayerBase/createSkin()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-playe
>r/player/as3/com/powtoon/player/PlayerBase.as:552]
>at 
>com.powtoon.player::PlayerNext/payloadComplete()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-
>player/player/as3/com/powtoon/player/PlayerNext.as:229]
>at 
>com.powtoon.utils::Conveyor/handler()[/home/wvxvw/workspace/hx-player/play
>er/as3/com/powtoon/utils/Conveyor.as:129]
>at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
>at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
>at 
>com.powtoon.player::PTPlayer/completeHandler()[../src/com/powtoon/player/P
>TPlayer.hx:330]
>
>Which looks like the generated code tries to call the constructor
>recursively...
>
>Best,
>Oleg
>
>On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Left Right <ol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm getting an error:
>>
>> TypeError: Error #2022: Class PlayerResource$ must inherit from
>> DisplayObject to link to a symbol.
>>
>> for the class, which looks like this:
>>
>> package com.powtoon.assets
>> {
>>     import flash.utils.ByteArray;
>>
>>     [Embed(source="../../../../assets/hx-player.swf",
>> mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
>>
>>     public class PlayerResource extends ByteArray { }
>> }
>>
>> When this is compiled with Falcon, this must be incorrectly linked to
>> a (wrong kind of) symbol?
>>
>> The relevant bit of the Ant build script looks like this:
>>
>> <mxmlc file="${basedir}/as3/com/powtoon/preloader/PreloaderFrame.as"
>>            output="${basedir}/bin/player-next.swf"
>>            static-link-runtime-shared-libraries="true"
>>            debug="${debug}" use-network="true"
>>            warn-unlikely-function-value="false"
>>            optimize="true">
>>       <frame label="start" classname="com.powtoon.player.PlayerNext"/>
>>       <includes>com.powtoon.assets.PlayerResource</includes>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Oleg