[Laszlo-dev] [JIRA] Created: (LPP-7893) Devguide refers to old attribute categories

[Donald Anderson]

Since there are some anchors to add in the dguide as part of this, I  
put instructions in the JIRA and left this for you.
Let me know if anything is unclear.
Thanks.

- Don

On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Lou Iorio wrote:

> Attributes are currently described in two places:
>
> In the reference: http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/reference/info-attributes.html
>
> In the dguide: http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/methods-events-attributes.html#methods-events-attributes.attribute-tag
>
> The information is largely redundant, and maintaining it in two  
> places is asking for trouble.
>
> I think it's in the reference for historical reasons: it's a js2doc  
> file that was adapted
> from the 3.4 docs/src/hardpages directory.
>
> I think the right thing to do is to merge the reference stuff into  
> the dguide stuff so we
> just maintain it in one place.
>
> The issue: each reference page has an Attributes section, where  
> Attributes
> is a link that points to:
>
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/reference/info-attributes.html
>
> This link is generated in the xsl (I think), and I don't know how to  
> change that.
>
> Don, can you change this to point to:
>
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/methods-events-attributes.html#methods-events-attributes.attribute-tag
>
> instead? (or tell me how to do it).
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Antun Karlovac (JIRA) <jira at laszlosystems.com>
> Date: Mar 10, 2009 1:09 PM
> Subject: [JIRA] Created: (LPP-7893) Devguide refers to old attribute  
> categories
> To: lou at louiorio.com
>
> Devguide refers to old attribute categories
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                  Key: LPP-7893
>                  URL: http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7893
>              Project: OpenLaszlo
>           Issue Type: Bug
>           Components: Documentation: Dguide
>     Affects Versions: 4.2.0.1
>             Reporter: Antun Karlovac
>             Assignee: Lou Iorio
>
>
> See the "5.1. Categories of Attributes" section of this:
>
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/methods-events-attributes.html#methods-events-attributes.attribute-tag
>
> The doc lists and describes the following categories of attributes:
>
>     *      Attributes
>     *      Event Handler (script may be defined in XML tag)
>     *      Final Attributes (defined only in XML tag)
>     *      Read-only Attributes (JavaScript fields)
>
>
> This is out-of-date.  The new categories are as follows:
>     * read/write attributes
>     * event-handler (script may be defined XML tag)
>     * initialize-only attributes (defined only in XML tag)
>     * read-only attributes (JavaScript fields)
>
> ... and they are described here:
>
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/reference/info-attributes.html
>
> The dguide should be updated to reflect the new order.
>
>
>
>
>
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