[Laszlo-dev] setters and LzDataElement

[Philip Romanik]

Hi Henry,

In the swf9 branch I kept the methods defined in the mixin classes, 
but moved where the setters are added to the real objects 
(LzDataElement, LzDataset, LzDataText). Are you planning on doing the 
same thing? This alleviates the mixin's from having to deal with the 
static setters list.

I don't think the extensible mechanism is needed to the data objects 
either. However, I'm still debugging to get the data code to work.

Thanks!

Phil



>As an optimization, I think we should not try to give LzDataElement 
>the extensible setter mechanism that LzNode has.
>
>There are a couple of setters defined in LzDataElement, which would look like
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>attributes = "setAttrs";
>childNodes = "setChildNodes";
>nodeName = "setNodeName";
>and maybe
>ownerDocument = "setOwnerDocument";
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>and LzDataText has a setter for
>data = "setData";
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>I can't think of any case where the user would want to add setters 
>to these classes, so I am thinking of just hardcoding these into a 
>static class var setters list, or possibly even hardcoding them into 
>a custom setAttribute method on LzDataElement.
>
>All the other crud (earlySetters, DelayedSetters, getters, options, 
>defaultattrs), are not needed for LzDataElement I think.
>
>Classes like LzDatapointer which derive from LzNode will still get 
>all that stuff. I'm just talking about LzDataElement and other 
>LzMiniNode subclasses.
>
>Thoughts?
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>--
>Henry Minsky
>Software Architect
><mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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