[Laszlo-dev] should query args / command-line args override canvas attributes?

[Jason Stafford]

The one place I use <canvas debug='true'> is when I'm playing around in 
Laszlo explorer, or in the documentation.  I like the flexibility of 
just pasting in a bit of source and playing with it, without ever having 
to make any files.  In that universe it's very handy to be able to 
specify debug=true.  For any production work I do of course I just use 
the parameter in the URL. 

I hope you can maintain this flexibility in all runtimes, but even if it 
is Flash only, I still would find it useful.

-Jason


P T Withington wrote:
> I think we should not even have debug as a canvas attribute.  Why  
> would you want your source to specify that you were debugging?  (Only  
> exception I can think of is lzunit, and it should just have an early  
> assertion that causes the whole test to fail if the debugger is not  
> present.)
>
> On 2006-08-30, at 22:47 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
>   
>> If you have an app that declares
>>
>> <canvas debug='true'>
>>
>> and you then fetch myapp.lzx?debug=false
>>
>> should the query arg override the canvas attribute when compiling  
>> the app?
>>
>> Currently it does not;  the canvas attribute takes final  
>> precedence. That
>> seems a little
>> backwards to me, the query arg ought to be treated like a command  
>> line arg
>> to the compiler
>> and should override the canvas app attributes. Anyone have any  
>> feelings one
>> way or the other?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>
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