[Laszlo-dev] still confused about referencing node id's from methods

[P T Withington]

I don't understand.  Isn't global supposed to be the outermost scope  
and where free refs will be looked up?

On 2008-04-01, at 11:25 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
> This code
>  <view id="v1"  width="100" height="20" bgcolor="red"/>
>  <view id="v2"  width="100" height="20" y="100" x="${v1.x + v1.width  
> + 20}"
> bgcolor="blue"/>
>
> compiles to a constraint method:
> $lzc$bind_x$v2_$m10:
> function  ($lzc$ignore = null) {
>    this.setAttribute("x", v1.x + v1.width + 20);
> }
>
>
> $lzc$dependencies_x$v2_$m10:
> function  () {
>    return [v1, "x", v1, "width"]
>        }
>
>
> But nodes which have  id's set them on the "global" object. So how  
> can we
> expect these references to work? Did we decide we need
> to put with (global) {...} around all method bodies? Or have the  
> compiler
> find all id's at compile timeand make real top level vars for them?
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com