Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Relative DynLayers

[Benoit M. <mar...@ma...>]

See below
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 12:44  PM, Raymond Irving wrote:

> Please see below:
>
> --- Benoit Marchant <mar...@ma...> wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 09:37  AM, Kevin
>> wrote:
>>
>>> See comments below:
>>>
>>> "Raymond Irving" <xw...@ya...> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've managed to create the setPosition(p)
>> function
>>>> which supports absolute, relative and fixed
>> positions.
>>>
>>> Yes this looks like what I had in mind. I'll need
>> time to
>>> work through it.
>>>
>>>> The insertChild() function was also modified from
>>>> insertChild(c,usebp) to insertChild(c,pos, usbp).
>> For
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> dynapi.document.insertChild(lyr,'relative');
>>>>
>>>> Please see the attached file for the new changes.
>>>>
>>>> I can't get ns4 to work relative positions, could
>>>> someone take a look at the code to see if they
>> can
>>>> help?
>>>
>>> I had put together a raw example to show what I
>> meant
>>> as I thought Raymond and Benoit were talking only
>> about
>>> fixing an element in the window no matter what the
>> scroll
>>> bar is..
>>>
>>> This example uses an <ilayer> to give the relative
>> container
>>> and the normal <layer> for the absolute positioned
>> children
>>> in ns4. Any ideas how this could this be used with
>> the new
>>> setPosition()?
>>>
>> The example is working great. What Raymond did
>> should work, as long as
>> getOuterHTML is updated for NS4 to output an iLayer
>> if the position is
>> relative.
>
> Many thanks for the feedback. I've implemented the
> <ilayer> tag as suggested and it worked great.
>
> Please see the attached file for the updates to
> dynlayer_ns4.js
>
>> Also, in  _create for NS4, we could to test the
>> position. If the
>> position is relative, then the code would do a
>> document.write() of the
>> getOuterHTML
>
> I can't see why we should do a document.write() after
> the page has been loaded. Relative layers should/can
> only be created before the page loads, correct? Would
> it be of any value to create relative laters after the
> page loads?
Good point ! You're right, except appending something at the end of the 
document, or add a child layer that would be inline, I don't see either 
!

Benoit

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> Raymond Irving
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>> Benoit
>>
>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Raymond Irving
>>>>
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