[Laszlo-user] edittext and password fields

[P T Withington]

'immediately' is effectively 'compile time', so you really can only  
use it for constant expressions.  You almost never want to use it.

I'm not the edittext guru, so I can't answer the rest of your question.

On 2007-10-10, at 16:05 EDT, James Robey wrote:

> Hi all, I think i may have found a bug in the edittext component,  
> but i thought someone might show this to be correct behavior in a  
> way I don't yet see. The issue is setting password="true" on an  
> <edittext/> component. It doesn't seem like the password attribute  
> can be constrained. This example might also reveal a bug with  
> $immediately{} constraints wherein "classroot" and "parent" don't  
> exist when the constraint is evaluated.
>
> Anyone have advice on how to make this work?
>
> Test case: none of these fields (save the last hardcoded editext)  
> has password styling.
>
>  <canvas proxied="false" debug="true">
>     <debug/>
>
>     <class name="pwtest">
>         <attribute name="passwordB" type="boolean" value="true"/>
>         <attribute name="passwordS" type="string" value="true"/>
>         <attribute name="passwordE" type="expression" value="true"/>
>
>         <simplelayout axis="y"/>
>
>         <edittext password="${classroot.passwordB}"/>
>         <edittext password="${classroot.passwordS}"/>
>         <edittext password="${classroot.passwordE}"/>
>
>         <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordB}"/>
>         <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordS}"/>
>         <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordE}"/>
>
>         <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordB}"/>
>         <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordS}"/>
>         <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordE}"/>
>
>         <edittext password="true"/>
>     </class>
>
>     <pwtest/>
>
> </canvas>