Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Widgets (was [no subject])

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

I'm not quite sure I follow your DynAPI.makeWidget.  Could you explain
that in a little more detail.  I don't understand what makeWidget is
trying to do there.


Robert

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> I've been thinking about this for some tome now and our main problem here is
> having all our widgets to share the DynLayer functionalities without sharing any
> properties. We need some sort of initialization code such as:
> 
> myWidget = function() {
>     // Init code
> 
>     // Assign id
>     this.id = ...
> 
>     // Widget stuff starts here
> 
> }
> 
> // Maybe not anymore
> myWidget.prototype
> 
> 
> However hard-coding it into all our widgets is a pain and when we need to change
> something then we have to edit all of your widgets and we force people to
> 'remember' whet has to be placed at the beggining of each constructor. I thing
> this can be solved by having this method (this is the idea, I haven't been able
> to code it)
> 
> DynAPI.makeWidget = function(constructor) {
> var code = window[constructor].toString()
> // now we have the code
> var header = code.substring(0,code.indexOf("{"))
> var rest = code.substring(code.indexOf("{"))
> var newcode = header + have all the common init stuff in a String here + rest
> eval(constructor+" = "+newcode)
> 
> // If needed attach prototying, assign variables, etc.
> }
> 
> 
> This way your widget code should be independent of the inheritance method
> adopted. This I presume, I haven't tested. Tell me what you think
>