Re: Trapping Box Properties?

I'll probably lift the restriction.  The only thing is that people
need to be aware that the values can (and quite often _do_) change
without any value being put to them.  If you put a write trap on
'width', it's not going to notify you when reflow causes the box size
to change.

  - a

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> You did say you were going to drop trap restrictions on box properties.
>
> I think everybody agreed that, for the most part, it'd be a good thing.
> The only problems that it might lead to would be easily resolved with a
> little ibex.log.info() debugging.
>
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:02 -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
>> Hrm, lemmethinkaboutit
>> 
>> David Crawshaw <[email protected]> writes:
>> > Was a decision reached on trapping box properties? Can we:
>> >      width ++= function(w) { ... }
>> > Or not?
>> >
>> > I think things would be a lot simpler if we could, but it could turn
>> > into a foot-shooter.
>> >
>> > -- d
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