Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynLayer style sheet class.

[Dan W. <da...@wi...>]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:01, Raymond Irving wrote:
> --- Benoit Marchant <mar...@ma...> wrote:
> > > lyr.setClass('',true) should do the trick.
> > 
> > I would rather pass the layer's id. So if you pass
> > the layer's ID as 
> > the style name, then you don't have to add class=""
> > in the div tag to 
> > get it applied, and in that case noInlineStyle is
> > implicitely true. Now 
> > if the name passed is different from  the id, then
> > it would mean 
> > generate a class="name".
> > 
> > So in a case where you want both to not use inline
> > style and a class, 
> > you would have to call it twice:
> > lyr.setClass(lyr.id);	//Tell not to generate inline
> > style
> > lyr.setClass('blueBg'); //Make it generate
> > class=blueBg
> > 
> > Does it make a second argument unnecessary ?
> 
> Whether you call setClass() or not, the style name
> that matches the layer's id will render the layer
> according to the style values.
> 
> To prevent the generation of inline styles the user
> could then do the following:
> 
> lyr.setClass(null,true); // ignore inline style
> // ignoring inline styles should not be the default
> option
> 
> If the user wants to use an additional styles, then
> he/she could do the follow:
> 
> lyr.setClass('blue_style',true);
> 
> Because the style name of the style object is the same
> as that of lyr.id we don't need to call
> setClass(lyr.id)
> 
> Question:
> -------------
> Should we make setClass() a function of the
> dynlayer_base.js file? Or should we make it into an
> extension?

I vote for it in dynlayer_base.js

> 
> 
> --
> Raymond Irving 
> 
> 
> 
> > Benoit
> > 
> > >
> > >> Now should
> > >> we on top of that be able to generate something
> > like
> > >> <DIV ID=myLayer
> > >> style="AStyle"></DIV>, probably,and of course be
> > >> able to set a class=""
> > >> As three options are valid ways of doing it, I
> > think
> > >> we should handled
> > >> them.
> > >
> > > So, you agree to setClass(name,noInlineStyle)?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raymond Irving
> > >
> > >> Benoit
> > >>
> > >> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:57  PM, Raymond
> > >> Irving wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Sounds ok to me, but how about the following:
> > >>>
> > >>> lyr.setClass(name,noPreStyle);
> > >>>
> > >>> When noPreStyle is set to true the api will
> > >> completely
> > >>> remove the style="..." string from <divs> and
> > will
> > >>> ignore bgcolor, width, height, left, top, etc
> > for
> > >>> <layers> and <ilayers>. The end result is that
> > >> layers
> > >>> will be created much faster.
> > >>>
> > >>> lyr.setClass('blue_style,box_style',true);
> > >>>
> > >>> This would require the user to specify all the
> > >> values
> > >>> (e.g. left,top width,etc) of the layer inside
> > the
> > >> css
> > >>> class.
> > >>>
> > >>> To give the user greater flexibility we could
> > then
> > >>> allow them to pass the value 'basic' to the
> > >> setClass()
> > >>> function to have the api only generate the left,
> > >> top,
> > >>> width and heigth values for the style object.
> > >>>
> > >>> lyr.setClass('blue_style','basic');
> > >>>
> > >>> What do you think?
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Raymond Irving
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --- Kevin <ke...@ke...> wrote:
> > >>>> Hello,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I've heard Raymond may be doing something in
> > the
> > >>>> area of
> > >>>> dynapi style objects? Sorry if I've got the
> > wrong
> > >>>> idea.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Could we have a simple starting point by just
> > >>>> passing a class
> > >>>> name to the DynLayer constructor or e.g.
> > >>>> lyr.setClass('note').
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The string 'class="note"' would be inserted in
> > >> the
> > >>>> div/layer/ilayer
> > >>>> tag before the big 'style="..."' string so we
> > can
> > >>>> pick up a
> > >>>> prepared style sheet class from a
> > >> <style>...</style>
> > >>>> section.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -
> > >>>> Kevin
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
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