Re: [Dynapi-Dev] setborder bug - resolved?

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

It seems to me that a more "natural" way to handle things would be to reduce
the size
of the layer rather than increasing it's clipping.

It seems perfeclt intuative to me that adding aborder of one pixel's width
would reduce
the amound of usable area by one pixel in each direction
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin" <ke...@ke...>
To: "Dynapi-Dev" <Dyn...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] setborder bug - resolved?


>
> "Raymond Irving" <xw...@ya...> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I propose that instead using layers (highlighters) to
> > create borders in DOM browsers we simply extend the
> > clipped area (w,h)to twice the border size:
> >
> > var w=((this.w+this._borClipOff)||0);
> > var h=((this.h+this._borClipOff)||0);
> > this.css.clip='rect(0px '+w+'px '+h+'px 0px)';
> >
> > The above will cause layers when viewed in DOM to
> > appear a little wider than when viewed in IE. This
> > should not be a problem for most designs as the
> > deigner can work around this. My main reason for doing
> > this is obvious... CSS is much faster than using
> > layers to create borders.
>
> I wouldn't ask a designer to work around our problems.
> If two DynLayers are side by side in a simple containing
> DynLayer. Giving the first a border dynamically would
> push the other under the containers clip and messing up
> the second DynLayers co-ordinates. Re: my previous
> comment:
>
> "Would we have to 'adjust' the dlyr x/y? What are the
> coords of relative elements or when constructing a
> widget and bordered elements need to touch?"
>
> This is bad and what makes it even worse is that IE5x
> will behave differently to IE4/6 and again differently to
> DOM. This doesn't matter for one DynLayer widgets
> as they animate over everything else.
>
> -
> Kevin
>
> > The designer will also have the option of using
> > highlighters to create borders in either IE or DOM.
> > This is done by drawing four child layers around the
> > parent layer:
> >
> > setBorder(size, color, useLyr);
> > size = size of border
> > color = color of border (e.g. "#FF00FF" or
> > {top:"#FFFFFF", right:"C0C0C0", bottom:"C0C0C0",
> > left:"FFFFFF"})
> > useLyr = (Optional) Forces the use of Layers as
> > borders. This is always true for NS4 but defaults to
> > false for DOM and IE.
> >
> > Do you agree to this implementation?
> >
> > --
> > Raymond Irving
> >
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