[svn] 3544: Adjust Flex to a Player 10 change.

Question

Revision: 3544
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-09 12:29:31 -0700 (Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Adjust Flex to a Player 10 change. Allow focus to change after the mouse is clicked on an object in a different sandbox.
To take advantage of the fix an application needs to be compiled for Player 10 (-target-player=10).
QE: YES
Doc:
Checkintests: YES. Marshall Plan mustella tests.
Reviewer: pfarland
Bugs: SDK-17123
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17123
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/FocusManager.as

Answer 1

There seems to have an interesting difference between FP9 and FP11, and this can cause some problem. The difference is in xml.appendChild("<child>test</child>"). It works well in FP9 but not in FP11, it seems. Here is what I get when publishing in both players:
Code:
var xml:XML = <content>
               <item>
                    <name>test</name>
               </item>
          </content>;
xml.appendChild("<child>test</child>");
trace(xml);
FP9 output:
          <content>
               <item>
                    <name>test</name>
               </item>
               <child>test</child>          
          <content>
FP11 output:
<content>
  <item>
    <name>test</name>
  </item>
  <item>&lt;child&gt;test&lt;/child&gt;</item>
</content>
What's wrong with this? How to fix the problem so that it runs in FP11 like it runs in FP9? I know that using xml.appendChild(<child>test</child>), without double quotes, should work but it means that I need to go over hundreds of files to fix it and in many cases the content "test" of the child node is a String variable, but not a constant.
Thanks