Is version 2.11.19-pre working well ?

Hello, list.

I recently experienced a case just similar to the swfmill
ticket #11
http://www.swf
mill.org/trac/ticket/11.
This problem annoys me a lot so that I started looking at it
with hope to
provide a patch.

My problematic swf generated by swfmill 0.2.12 contains a
<DefineText> tag
as follows:

-----------------------------<CODE
START>---------------------------------------------
      <DefineText objectID="3">
        <bounds>
          <Rectangle left="23"
right="5025" top="82"
bottom="902"></Rectangle>
        </bounds>
        <transform>
          <Transform transX="0"
transY="0"></Transform>
        </transform>
        <records>
          <TextRecord>
            <records>
              <TextRecord6 objectID="2"
x="860" fontHeight="1000">
                <color>
                  <Color red="255"
green="255"
blue="255"></Color>
                </color>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="4"
advance="712"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="0"
advance="333"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="2"
advance="860"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="0"
advance="333"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="3"
advance="700"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="0"
advance="333"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="1"
advance="278"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="0"
advance="333"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs>
                  <TextEntry glyph="5"
advance="771"></TextEntry>
                </glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
              <TextRecord6>
                <glyphs></glyphs>
              </TextRecord6>
            </records>
          </TextRecord>
        </records>
      </DefineText>
----------------------------<CODE
END>-------------------------------------

This <DefineText> shows only one glyph "T"
when played. But you can easily
see that there contained 4 more glyphs
("O","P","I","X").
Only the 1st
glyph "T" is displayed and the rest are not
showed. Why?

I noticed that strange empty element
"<TextRecord6><glyphs></glyphs></T
extRecord6>" tags are inserted in between
glyphs. What is this? --- I wondered. It seems to me that
this strange
empty element confuses the Flash Player and let it miss 2nd
and following
glyphs.

I read the Alexis' SWF Reference document, 
"swf_text_record"section (
http://sswf.sourceforge.net/SWFalexref.html#swf_text_
record ). It gave me
an inspiration. It says:

-----------------------------<QUOTE
START>--------------------------------
WARNING: it seems that Macromedia didn't think about a file
having two
records of type glyph one after another (it makes their
plugins crash); you
will have to insert a setup record between each glyph record
(the setup can
be empty: i.e. add one byte equal to 0x80). The very first
setup has to at
least define the font.

NOTE: this has been corrected by Macromedia it now shows as
one structure
including the style and an array of glyphs. This fixes the
problem at once.
It however makes the structure look a bit more complicated.

....
      union swf_text_record {
            unsigned          f_flags : 8;
            swf_text_record_end     f_end;
            if(version >= 7) {
                  swf_text_record_string  f_string;
            }
            else {
                  swf_text_record_setup   f_setup;
                  swf_text_record_glyphs  f_glyphs;
            }
      };
------------------------------<QUOTE
END>----------------------------------


Now I tell you my thinking.

The strange empty
"<TextRecord6><glyphs></glyphs></T
extRecord6>" is exactly
what Alexis says "setup record between each
glyph". The swfmill-0.2.12
generates those setup records. However, I suppose, the
swfmill-0.2.12 does
not take the change Macromedia made at the SWF format
version.7 into
account. The swfmill should not insert setup records WHEN
the swf format
version>=7. A fix might be found around this aspect.


How do you think, dan?



      ====================
      MATSUHASHI,kazuaki
      QUICK Corp.
      Japan




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