[Laszlo-dev] LPP-8477, font changes when switching from single line to multiline in IE7

[Max Carlson]

...sweet.  I hate IE!

Henry Minsky wrote:
> In Firefox, asking for cssText gives you this
> 
> lzx> foo.sprite.__LzInputDiv.style.cssText
> 'overflow: scroll; font-family: monospace; width: 415px; height: 115px;'
> lzx>
> 
> But in IE7 you get no font info
> lzx> foo.sprite.__LzInputDiv.style.cssText
> 'OVERFLOW: scroll; WIDTH: 417px; CLIP: rect(auto auto auto auto); 
> HEIGHT: 117px'
> lzx>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Henry Minsky <henry.minsky at gmail.com 
> <mailto:henry.minsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     That apparently does not work in IE7 for some reason...
> 
>     On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:25 AM, P T Withington
>     <ptw at laszlosystems.com <mailto:ptw at laszlosystems.com>> wrote:
> 
>         I don't follow.  setMultiline copies _all_ of the div styles over:
> 
>                lz.embed.__setAttr(newdiv, 'style', olddiv.style.cssText);
> 
>         (in addition to the scroll position).  So, something else is
>         going wrong...
> 
> 
>         On 2009-10-14, at 08:22, Max Carlson wrote:
> 
>             Yes, I think it needs to copy the necessary fontstyles over.
>              Right now LzInputTextSprite#setMultiline() only preserves
>             the text contents, scrollLeft and scrollTop.  The necessary
>             styles should be preserved in:
>             LzInputTextSprite.prototype.__fontStyle = 'normal';
>             LzInputTextSprite.prototype.__fontWeight = 'normal';
>             LzInputTextSprite.prototype.__fontSize = '11px';
>             LzInputTextSprite.prototype.__fontFamily =
>             'Verdana,Vera,sans-serif';
> 
>             I'd avoid copying the entire CSS style - that's pretty risky.
> 
>             Henry Minsky wrote:
> 
>                 I'm trying to figure out why the font is changing back
>                 to the default font when an input field
>                 is set to multiline in IE7/DHTML.
>                 The code in LzInputTextSprite.setMultiline does create a
>                 new div, with _createInputDiv, does that need to
>                 copy the font styles over?
>                 <canvas>
>                  <inputtext id="foo" width="400" x="14" name="foo"
>                  font="monospace" fontsize="11" fontstyle="plain"
>                            multiline="false"
>                            text="${canvas.runtime}"
>                            bgcolor="#ccffcc"
>                            onclick="   setAttribute('multiline', true);
>                 this.setAttribute('height', 100); "/>
>                 </canvas>
>                 -- 
>                 Henry Minsky
>                 Software Architect
>                 hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>                 <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>                 <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>                 <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>>
> 
> 
>             -- 
>             Regards,
>             Max Carlson
>             OpenLaszlo.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Henry Minsky
>     Software Architect
>     hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
> 
> 

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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org