[Laszlo-dev] Parsing order of dataset attributes

[John Sundman]

Doc guy has noted:

http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-3480

I would appreciate help in devising an example that shows the (or a)  
correct approach.

Thanks,

jrs



On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:12 AM, P T Withington wrote:

> There are 2 issues here:
>
> 1) Henry is right (again!):  XML attributes do not have an order,  
> so the example is just broken.  To make the column order the same  
> across platforms, you would have to bind the columns to nodes  
> (which are ordered), not attributes; or, impose some ordering on  
> the columns (e.g., does grid have an option to specify its columns,  
> rather than intuiting them from the databinding?).  Diddling the  
> runtimes to make the column orders match is not the correct solution.
>
> [DOC Guy: In fact, his would make a good documentation example,  
> showing the inherent unorderedness of XML attributes and how to  
> deal with that, assuming there is a way to specify grid column order.]
>
> 2) I do see one more deferred event handling in the DHTML case than  
> in the SWF case.  This may be indicative of another problem.
>
> I don't know about your theory of SWF node instantiation and the  
> other bugs, but I do not believe it is relevant here.
>
> On 2007-01-26, at 22:08 EST, Max Carlson wrote:
>
>> So, it sounds like swf is instantiating backwards in legals, when  
>> compared to trunk.
>>
>> I remember way back in the day we had to reverse the view init  
>> order of children in SWF to get things to look right.  We no  
>> longer do this, which could explain the behavior.
>>
>> This also sounds like it could be the issue underlying these bugs:
>> LPP-3331 - Flash: Components Menu example is missing openMenu  
>> right/below/top
>> LPP-3274 - Laszlo in 10 scripting->method example not showing 5  
>> yellow boxes on startup
>>
>> We need to make sure swf is consistent between trunk and legals,  
>> and dhtml and swf are consistent in legals.
>>
>> -Max
>>
>> Philip Romanik wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I'm looking into a jira bug (http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/ 
>>> browse/LPP-3379) where the display order is reversed between swf  
>>> and dhtml. Is there anything I can do about the ordering? The  
>>> behavior of dhtml matches v3.3 (it displays data in the order  
>>> it's listed). It is reversed in swf. Here's an app that  
>>> demonstrates it.
>>> I think this issue came up a while back. Do either of you remember?
>>> Thanks!
>>> Phil
>>> <canvas debug="true">
>>>   <dataset name="weather">
>>>     <forecast>
>>>       <day label="TODAY" imageurl="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ifps/ 
>>> text/images/hi_shwrs70.jpg"
>>> desc="Rain Likely" temp="Hi  60&#176;F "/>
>>>       <day label="Tonight " imageurl="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ 
>>> ifps/text/images/nwind.jpg"
>>> desc="Breezy " temp="Lo  34&#176;F "/>
>>>     </forecast>
>>>   </dataset>
>>>   <grid bgcolor0="0xAA0000" bgcolor1="0x880000"
>>>           datapath="weather:/" contentdatapath="forecast/day" />
>>> </canvas>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Max Carlson
>> OpenLaszlo.org
>