Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] Label text selection

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

How about an updateText() function added to the label widget that
would call setText().

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// Robert Rainwater

On 12/10/2000, 5:18:11 PM EST, Scott wrote about "[Dynapi-Dev] Label text selection":

> Yeah, that's something I overlooked.  setText needs to be called in order to
> see an immediate change, but there's no reason to call setText every time
> you change a label property.  Doesn't setHTML also fire a load event, too?

> An addition boolean passed to each of the setter method could determine if
> the text is to be re-rendered.  or optionally, we could just require that
> setText should be invoked manually, rather than automatically from within
> another setter method.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Rainwater <rra...@ya...>
> To: DynAPI Development List <dyn...@li...>
> Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Label text selection


>>
>>Another problem witht the list/label widgets is the many calls to
>>setText.  In ListItem, the onmouseout and mousemouse over makes to
>>different calls to change the font (forecolor, textcolor).  Each one
>>of these calls, calls setText which sets the html.
>>
>>Maybe we should pass a boolean to the font change functions, that
>>decides whether or not to call setText.
>>
>>--
>>// Robert Rainwater
>>
>>On 12/8/2000, 6:37:49 PM EST, Scott wrote about "[Dynapi-Dev] Label text
> selection":
>>
>>> There's a small snag in Label.  In IE, when you use setSelectable to
>>> prevent text from being selected with the mouse, you're also cancelling
>>> the browser event.  This can also cancel events on the label itself.
>>> For example, if you build a list item out of a label with rollover color
>>> change events, sometimes the label text will cancel the onmouseout
>>> event.  If you mouseover the list fast enough you may end up with
>>> several items stuck in the rollover position.  This could cause problems
>>> with other widgets that use Label.
>>
>>> In light of this, I'm wondering if we should restore the optional
>>> addCover() method that uses a physical layer to cover text.  If you
>>> don't need it, just use setSelectable.
>>
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