[translate-swf-updates] Status report for week ending July 23rd

[News on r. b. a. p. f. T. S. f. J. <tra...@li...>]

Progress This Week:

A lot of progress, though not all the changes have been committed yet. 
More in the next status report-


API Changes:

1. Added PlayerType enum to distinguish between the different runtime 
platforms, specifically to target the different Flash Lite versions that 
are used on mobile platforms and set-top boxes.

Code Changes:

1. Cleaned up ASCompiler interface and oither classes to support both 
the existing  and new refactored codebases.

2. Moved all the code generation code in ASNode over to NodeGenerator - 
a default generator class that will then be refactored into smaller 
generator classes.


Planned For Next Week:

1. The actionscript used to test the compiler is currently started as 
suite of scripts. For each script there is a Flash file generated by 
Flash CS3 that acts as a reference to compare the output of the code 
generated by the ASCompiler against. A new suite is needed for each 
profile (a combination of actionscript version, flash player version and 
target rumtime) as the code can vary according to the Flash Player 
environment - there are particular differences between the browser 
plugin and the player on mobile phones for example. The result is a 
large number of identical scripts which will be complicated to mantain. 
The solution is to store the parameters in YAML files and generate the 
actionscript files.

This means that a version of the Flash authoring tool is needed to 
generate the reference flash files but this disadvantage will be offset 
by the large reduction in effort needed to maintain  the scripts. 
Probably a small reference set of scripts and Flash files will be 
retained in the repository so the compiler can be tested without needing 
a copy of the Flash Authoring tool.

Regards,

Stuart
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Flagstone Software Ltd.