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OpenLaszlo allows you to compile applications to SWF8, SWF9 or DHTML. Recently I’ve heard people ask, “why would you want to compile an application to DHTML?” When you think about it, that’s not a silly question at all. Regardless of whether you compile an OpenLaszlo application to SWF or DHTML, you’ll have similar benefits and [...]

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A few days ago, I wrote about how to access the named colors in OpenLaszlo 4.2.0. (Where Have All the Colors Gone?) I even wrote a little example showcasing the colors in the lz.colors array. Then Tucker helpfully directed me to a very complete example in the documentation that showed not only the location of [...]

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In OpenLaszlo you’ve always been able to specify colors in a variety of ways. In tags, you could use named colors, JavaScript hexadecimal notation and pound (hex) notation: <view bgcolor=”red” width=”20″ height=”20″ /> <view bgcolor=”0xff0000″ width=”20″ height=”20″ /> <view bgcolor=”#ff0000″ width=”20″ height=”20″ /> In JavaScript, you could use either the hex notation or the named [...]

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