Has the jsdoc syntax of "type[]" been used elsewhere? It is likely that
externc didn't know to expect it.
For now, you can patch your .js file to just claim to return an array.
Lots of our other typedefs hack the .js file before pushing it through
externc.
-Alex
On 2/26/17, 10:42 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Yes. I put it though externc.
>
>Here’s the ActionScript output for the method:
> /**
> * Convert the given text to a list of Glyph objects.
> * Note that there is no strict one-to-one mapping between characters
>and
> * glyphs, so the list of returned glyphs can be larger or smaller
>than the
> * length of the given string.
> *
> * @param s [string]
> * @see [opentype]
> * @returns {(null|opentype.Glyph)} ]}
> */
> public function stringToGlyphs(s:String):opentype.Glyph { return
>null; }
>
>That definitely looks wrong.
>
>I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do. Unless we introduce Typed Arrays,
>probably just converting it to a simple Array is the safest way to go. I
>don’t think Vector will translate very well.
>
>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/25/17, 11:42 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com
>><mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have the following in an extern:
>>>
>>> /**
>>> * Convert the given text to a list of Glyph objects.
>>> * Note that there is no strict one-to-one mapping between characters
>>>and
>>> * glyphs, so the list of returned glyphs can be larger or smaller than
>>> the
>>> * length of the given string.
>>> * @param {string} s
>>> * @param {Object=} options
>>> * @return {opentype.Glyph[]}
>>> */
>>> opentype.Font.prototype.stringToGlyphs = function(s, options) {};
>>>
>>> The function returns an array of opentype.Glyph objects.
>>>
>>> When I try compile a call to this function, I get the following error
>>>(in
>>> compc):
>>> "Implicit coercion of a value of type Glyph to an unrelated type
>>>Array."
>>>
>>> This seems to me like it’s probably a bug.
>>
>> I'm guessing you first put this code throughout externc? What is the
>>.as
>> output? Has externc handled other typed arrays correctly? Is it
>>supposed
>> to convert it to a Vector?
>>
>> -Alex
>
