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Entries from November 2008

Changes at Google Maps

November 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The good folks at Google Maps appear to have been busy. The UI for the zoom/pan control (GLargeMapControl) has been refreshed with a new skin. The process for selecting the position from which to view the neigborhood using the Street View feature is simplified - the draggable “person” is always present in the zoom control.
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Tags: Google Maps

The id Attribute in 4.1

November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One subtle thing that has changed in OpenLaszlo 4.1 is that you can no longer specify the id attribute when instantiating objects from script.
When instantiating a class from script, you can specify a dictionary of initial properties as the second argument to the constructor:
var v = new lz.view(canvas, {width: 300, height: 300, bgcolor: 0xff0000}); // [...]

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Tags: LZX Tips · OpenLaszlo

Tab Completion in the Debugger

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a handy tab completion feature in the OpenLaszlo debugger now. It’s been around for a few months, but I’ve avoided using it mainly because the keyboard focus was a little flaky on my old Windows laptop.
It works just like a typical Unix (say bash) shell:

Recompile your application with the debugger. e.g. browse to the [...]

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Tags: LZX Tips