[Laszlo-user] constraints and method-calls

[P T Withington]

Constraints are groovy, but costly.  So are delegates though.  The  
most programmatic way to do this is to create a setter for  
parent.forminput.text that also updates mytext.text.  I.e., replace a  
delegate with a function call.

On 2008-03-07, at 12:50 EST, Elliot Winard wrote:

> Oops.  Itchy trigger finger.
>
> I'm refactoring a chunk of LZX code to make it less declarative and  
> LZXy and more programmatic and ECMAScripty.
>
> I was going to ask about the mechanics of dependency functions but I  
> decided to just change the code I'm working on to *not* use  
> functions wherever possible. Basically, I turned stuff like this -
>     <text name="mytext"
>              text="$ 
> { LzBrowser.xmlEscape( parent.forminput.getText() ) }" />
> - into this -
>     <text name="mytext"
>              text="$ 
> { LzBrowser.xmlEscape( parent.forminput.text) }" />
> - and then replaced the constraint with methods & delegates &  
> altogether.
>
> Thx,
> -e
>
>
> Elliot Winard wrote:
>> I'm refactoring a chunk of declarative LZX code so it's
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