Phil,
Between you and Tucker I've been reminded of two elemental things that
I has somehow completely overlooked.
Thanks for prompt & helpful response.
jrs
On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Philip Romanik wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> If you put the oninit handler in the parent view you'll see the values
> of (x,y) after the layout has run. Alternatively, if you change the
> handler from 'oninit' to 'ony' you'll see it run twice.
>
> Phil
>
>> Well, I am now officially confused about the behavior of simplelayout
>> (and not for the first time).
>>
>> This is what I have written in the reference page now:
>>
>> <p><classname>simplelayout</classname> extends
>> <classname>LzLayout</classname>, and therefore it is responsible for
>> arranging all of the subviews for the view that it is attached to.
>> <classname>simplelayout</classname>
>> affects either the <attribute>x</attribute> or
>> <attribute>y</attribute> value, depending on the value of the
>> <attribute>axis</attribute>
>> attribute. <classname>simplelayout</classname> places the first
>> subview at (0, 0) and then places each subsequent subview based on
>> the width (or height) of the previous subview, depending on which
>> axis was specified.</p>
>>
>> However, consider the following:
>>
>> <canvas debug="true">
>> <view >
>> <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="10"/>
>> <view bgcolor="blue" y="40" height="30" width="50">
>> <handler name="oninit">
>> Debug.write("x is " + x, "y is " + y)
>> </handler>
>> </view>
>> <view bgcolor="blue" height="30" width="50"/>
>> <view bgcolor="blue" height="30" width="50"/>
>> </view>
>> </canvas>
>>
>> No matter what values you assign to x and y of the first view, it
>> always appears in the upper left corner. That is, to the eye it
>> appears that it's at x=0, y=0.
>>
>> However, the debug statements reflect the values given to x and y in
>> the opening tag.
>>
>> So the question comes down to, who am I going to believe, the debug
>> statement or my lying eyes?
>>
>> Or, more likely, am I overlooking something really obvious?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> jrs
>>
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