Re: [Dynapi-Dev] BorderManager & Highlighter UPDATED - (files attached)

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

This sounds very good, but Kevin files weren't in your mail. Is it  
possible to access it and have a look at it ?

Thanks

Benoit

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 11:53  AM, Raymond Irving wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Nice work! It looks great! I have a few suggestions:
>
> 1) DynLayer(html,x,y,w,h,color,image) - Some time ago
> DynLayer had so many arguments that it was very
> difficult to work with. With 2.9 Dan took the
> initiative to only use the most commonly used
> arguments. I would suggest that we keep only 6
> arguments inside the constructor in order to try and
> keep it simple, but since we already have background
> color I think it's only fitting to have background
> image as part of the constructor. Agree? Can we stop
> at seven?
>
> 2) Highlighter(x,y,w,h,color,image) -  the same as
> above. For Skins() "image" is already part of the
> dictionary object.
>
> 3) Another name for setBorder2 could be
> setSkinBorder()?
>
>
> Keep up the good work
>
>
> PS. Have to tested the creation speed of say 100
> layers with skinned borders?
>
>
> --
> Raymond Irving
>
>
> --- Kevin <ke...@ke...> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Raymond, I hope you don't mind me extending you
>> ideas. I've had a go at presenting my
>> thoughts on borders which are similar to Benoit's.
>> Please unpack the attached file in the
>> latest dynapi3x root folder/directory. In principle:
>>
>> 1) Images in highlighters (just auto repeat
>> background image).
>> 2) Have 1 content layer + 4 sides + 4 corners + 1
>> container.
>> 3) Moving container moves all (no group manager
>> needed).
>> 4) Border2 is DOM2 spec' i.e. border is outside
>> element width (border won't clip content).
>> 5) Offer flexibility to have different skin widths
>> (perhaps someone can complete this?)
>> 6) Let transparent gifs with background colors be
>> defaulted and configurable (unfinished).
>>
>> There is so much more work to do on this I thought
>> I'd stop here and see if it's close!
>>
>> Could someone change the example to show how to use
>> preloaded images from cache
>> rather than strings. Does <layer background=img.src
>> ..> do it for ns4? These updates
>> have been tested on Linux NS4/Mozilla. Please help
>> and offer the fix if it doesn't work
>> on your browser.
>>
>> -
>> Kevin.
>>
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I've completed the BorderManager and Highligther
>>> classes as promised
>>>
>>> You can see a live demo here:
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www24.brinkster.com/dyntools/next/examples/ 
> dynapi.gui.bordermanager.html
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www24.brinkster.com/dyntools/next/examples/ 
> dynapi.gui.highlighter.html
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www24.brinkster.com/dyntools/next/examples/ 
> dynapi.gui.focusmanager.html
>>>
>>> Note: The setBorder() function now requires the
>>> BorderManager Class
>>>
>>>
>>> Any comments? Can I go ahead and upload these
>> changes
>>> to CVS?
>>>
>>>
>>> PS. Files are attached
>>>
>>> --
>>> Raymond Irving
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-zip-compressed
> name=border-update.zip
>
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