Re: Trapping Box Properties?

So, I've been thinking about this, and it's actually not as scary as
it looks.  In fact, I think trapping width and height will replace
SizeChange, and trapping numchildren will replace ChildChange.

I put FIXMEs at the top of Box.java noting the places where we might
run into trouble.

  - a

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 00:20 -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmm, width and height probably shouldn't be trappable as they are
> meta-properties (for writing to min/max width/height), or if they are we
> need to put a big fat warning (of what you just said) in the reference.
> -- 
> - Charlie
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