OK. That helps. Thanks.

If I would want to add a SWC to an FDT project as an extrern, do you know what 
I should try to do?

On Apr 18, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

> Any SWC can be an externs SWC.  For the FalconJX compiler, it is just a
> SWC that goes on the external-library-path so that the compiler doesn't
> try to look for actual .JS implementation files.  Anything on the
> external-library-path is assumed to have its implementation loaded some
> other way (or because it is built into the browser).
> 
> But since no actual running code is needed in the SWC itself, the externs
> SWCs are full of definitions that have no implementation, but the API
> signature.
> 
> We've create extern swcs in many different ways.  Google gives us a bunch
> of .JS files for es3, es5, svg, etc.   There are also .JS files for jquery
> and jasmine and google_maps.  Michael Schmalle wrote the externC compile
> that converts .JS files to AS.  For GCL, we hand-wrote the AS that matches
> the JS signatures.  For CreateJS, we take CreateJS sources, run sed on
> them, then run them through externC.
> 
> For CSInterface, you could:
> 1) just try running externC on it.
> 2) empty all of the function bodies and then run externC
> 3) just hand-port the signature to AS.
> 
> HTH,
> -Alex
> 
> 
> On 4/17/16, 4:38 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’m still kind of fuzzy on how externs work.
>> 
>> I decided to try to create a CC Extension using FlexJS as an educational
>> exercise (and possibly as a prototype for others).
>> 
>> I would like to add compiler checking for CSInterface[1], but I’m not
>> sure how to go about it. I tried looking for how Create.js was setup to
>> use as a guide, but I could not find/figure that out.
>> 
>> Could someone give me some pointers?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Harbs
>> 
>> [1]https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/blob/master/CEP_6.x/CSInterf
>> ace.js
> 

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