[Gnash-dev] DefineEditText variable name and globals

[strk]

The DefineEditText tag contains a "VariableName" attribute.
Semantic of this attribute is not clear to me.

Alexis' reference says that:

<<
 The text is defined in a variable (accessible in action scripts). It can be 
dynamically assigned and retreived. It is legal to have an empty string as the 
variable name (not dynamically accessible).
>>

So, I'm assuming that assigning to that variable will change the
displayed text, and that retriving that variable would read the
displayed text. Does this sound correct ?

For a testcase, see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?17806
(https://savannah.gnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=10791)

It seems to me that GPLFlash2 actually uses this as the default
"instance name" instead, which seems incorrect (the above testcase
for example uses an explicit "/" anchor in the variable name to
attach the variable to the root). Also, a comment in Gnash seems
to suggest this (server/parser/edit_text_character_def.h:126).

So, any idea about who's right and who's wrong ?

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