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[Dynapi-Dev] Updated dynlayer and dyndocument

[Robert R. <rra...@ya...>]

I've updated the dynlayer and dyndocument so that the recreateall will
actually work.  The biggest pain was adding children of children to
the all array in the addChild method.  So I added a method addChildID
that should fix the problem.  When a dynlayer thats knows its dyndoc
or a dyndocument itself calls addchild, then that child and all of its
children are added to the .all and .allID arrays.

I've attached my dynlayer and dyndocument files.  Please let me know
of any bugs/improvements because it hasn't been fully tested yet.

Also, the method calls like oncreate that are hard coded into the
dynlayer need to be removed.  Like:
if (this.onCreate) { this.onCreate() }   //<-

The only problem is that they are used in some of the widgets.  So if
we are going to remove these, everyone should make sure their widgets
use the eventlisteners instead.

Also, could someone tell me the purpose of the .all array?  I know we
need the allID array, but the all array I just don't understand.


\\Robert

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Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Updated dynlayer and dyndocument

[Rob R. <ro...@ma...>]

Robert Rainwater wrote:

> I've updated the dynlayer and dyndocument so that the recreateall will
> actually work.

Hey I just threw this into my files fired up Netscape opened up the gui.menulist, and
resized away...Yeah!!! the layers are recreated....but if I keep doing over and over,
the redraw of the layers slow down, until at about the 10th time it stops redrawing,
is the recreateall, reusing the previous layers or creating new ones? if it is
creating new ones could it be the old ones are not being killed off and hence the
slowdown and freeze as you clog the browser with layers

If you reload or move to a new page and back everything is fine so hopefully, for now
users won't resize 10 times while on the same page :-)

thanks,

Rob Romanek

Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Updated dynlayer and dyndocument

[Robert R. <rra...@ya...>]

> Hey I just threw this into my files fired up Netscape opened up the gui.menulist, and
> resized away...Yeah!!! the layers are recreated....but if I keep doing over and over,
> the redraw of the layers slow down, until at about the 10th time it stops redrawing,
> is the recreateall, reusing the previous layers or creating new ones? if it is
> creating new ones could it be the old ones are not being killed off and hence the
> slowdown and freeze as you clog the browser with layers
> 
> If you reload or move to a new page and back everything is fine so hopefully, for now
> users won't resize 10 times while on the same page :-)

Recreateall does actually recreate the layers in Netscape.  And the
function that is used, createElement, could probaly use some more optimization.

A lot of it could just be a Netscape memory allocation thing, too.  But, I
see several places that the dynlayer can be fixed so that the creation
will speed up.  Hopefully I fix some of these early next week and post
them.  I haven't really tested my update to much, but hopefully
someone will find some optimizations as well.

\\Robert

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