Re: [Fresco-devel] Text styles/cloning graphics

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:21, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > I think this has the wrong semantics.  Say you have a hyperlink, and
> > it gets split over two lines.  The clone() approach says that you
> > break the button into two buttons, and insert each of them into the
> > control graph.  And then when the user tabs through their hyperlinks,
> > the two halves of the link act like two separate links -- you have to
> > hit tab twice to get by.  They also show focus (eg, with a little
> > outline thingie) separately, handle mouse-over and mouse-down's
> > separately, etc.  This is all wrong.
> 
> indeed, and I think the error is to think about line breaks as something
> that affects the scene graph's topology. It does (and should) not.
> 

I'm not sure I understand: do you mean linebreaking should happen on
traversal, and we should not create textstyle decorators below the
hboxes? Are you saying we shouldn't be using hboxes for lines of text at
all?


-- Mourad