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September 5, 2005

New Patch for Screenweaver 3 OS

Just want to spread the word here, new patch update available for Screenweaver 3 OS. Here are the change log

Engine/API related change-log, per revision (latest to oldest)
[35]
* fixed mouse scrollwheel events not being forwarded, whilst retaining SW scrollwheel functionality (since it also allows for scrollwheel click detection, etc.)
* added sample to test native scroll-wheel functionality.
* added xml-string encoding/decoding to XMLMAN
* added to stdafx.h - should be using that in more places instead of char*'s
* debug congig 'project' set to 'nativescroll' movie.
* changed swApplication.getMovieFolder to its origional behaviour.
[34]
Incorporated and verified Romain's API fixes
[33]
* Fixed 'allowDomain' bug that caused Flash Player 7 not to accept incoming calls from the engine.
[32]
Fixed case bug (with F7>) with LC callbacks: "..._Receive" instead of "..._receive".
[31]
Added the first 'Flash 8 only' feature that depends on the external interface: Regular Expressions. The AS API now has swSystem.RegEx? . The sample (misc/samples/regex.fla) illustrates how the extension works.
Note that after compiling the sample with Flash 7, its version flag needs to be set to 8. When run from the compiler in Debug - External Interfaces config this is not neccesary, nor when compiled with Flash 8 (obviously). The way is now paved for people to start porting old local connection commands to EI, as well as creating new EI based Screenweaver features. The only thing still missing is getting events to work with the EI. [30]
* added a simple (regexp based) XML parser to XMLMAN for parsing incoming FlashCall? call's and transforming them to AMF.
* added some routing code to RD_FlashContainer? to pickup old LC calls on the external interface, parse them to AMF, let them do their work, and finaly transform the produced AMF to XML and return it as a FlashCall? < https://secure.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/osflash/screenweaver/wiki/FlashCall> result.
* For testing, added code to the swSystem AS API. With Flash 8 movies, swSystem.getEnvironmentVariable now is synchronous (yahoo!). so: var envVar: String = swSystem.getEnvironmentVar("APPDATA"); works now in F8 movies. Other AS API functions could easily be rewritten to become synchronous too.
[27]
* I've made a start with getting SW3 working with F8's external interface. The folowing has been done (please not that you won't notice any changes unless you work with F8 files!):
* Introduced swInterface.fscommand in the API. If external interface is available, than that is used to contact the engine. If not, a regular (async) fscommand is used.
* Updated swDebug to use the new 'swInterface.fscommand' calls. More interfaces could be updated.
* Added code to the engine for intercepting FlashCall? < https://secure.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/osflash/screenweaver/wiki/FlashCall> events (part of external interfaces) and introduced a first SW external interface 'command', namely 'fscommand'.
* Added a new namespace called 'XMLMAN' for xml-parsing related code. It currently has some methods that parse the 'fscommand' call, using regular expressions.
* Implemented an AMF to XML transformer (at rd_flashloccon_write) to facilitate using the current LC commands with the external interface. Some test-code (_DEBUG switched) is at rd_flashcontainer.cpp, OnNewData? )
* Added a new engine Debug config called 'External Interface' for testing. It uses a new #define "FORCEVERSION8" which triggers newly added code in sw_swfheader that will always set the version of the feeded content to 8 (so the player will enable the external interface)