Sortie/ Sortie.js

Core acts as a pre processor.  You can use Core in include javascript libraries from with javascript code, and you can also ad “require” statements to your libraries if your library depends on some other library.  For example, to include libraries - from your applications main startup area you could do the following:

Sortie.Core.$({
     include:new Array(
         "Code/Util/Cookie.js",
         "Code/Util/Search.js"
     )
});

After you have all the js files the application needs you call Sortie.Core.Include() to load all the libraries.  See the Events.html example for a working example.  In addition to including files, your library can use Core to check to see if a required library exists.  To check, in your library code, you add something like the following at the start of the file:

Sortie.Core.$({
     require:new Array(
         { c:"Sortie.Util.Collections", v:"0.2"},
         { c:"Some.Other.Class" }
     )
});

c stands for class, and v stands for version.  Version is optional, but if the libaray adds metadata to the class (the “VERSION” property) the version is checked and if older than required there is an error.  After the Sortie.Core.Include() is run, the environment is checked for the existence of the class (or function) passed in c.  At present the require and include commands are the only supported pre processor commands.

| Command        | Params              |

| require        | Array of variables  |
| include        | Array of filenames  |

Namespace

Sortie