[Laszlo-dev] special case in text sprite for "null" value ?

[P T Withington]

Sounds like a kludge...  Surely setting the text to `null` is supposed  
to be one way of saying there is no text, but someone along the way is  
coercing `null` to a string so it comes across as "null" instead?

On 2007-12-05, at 15:36 EST, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I came across this in the swf and dhtml text sprite implementations,
> the setText method converts a value of the string "null" into the
> empty string
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> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-5196
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> Anyone remember why we do this? Seems like a bad idea.
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> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com