On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Alex Milowski wrote: > For all of my MathML rendering objects I've optionally compiled in a > simple override to the paint() method to provide a visual representation > of the containing box's boundary and the baseline position. I've been > using this to debug the layout of the Mathematics. > > What is the proper way to wrap this kind of code when I go to create > a patch? Right now it is a compile time feature that I turn on with > a define.
It's reasonable to use an ENABLE() flag for debugging features like this, in my opinion. I don't know if we have any direct precedent. (OTOH couldn't you get the boundary just using a style rule with a 1px border?) > > Also, what I'd really like is the ability to inspect the full rendering > tree associated with the MathML and turn on this outlining of the > box and baseline for every rendering object in that subtree that reduces > to a RenderBoxModelObject instance. > > Is there some tool that could do this already or via some modification? Not that I know of. I think when people want to debug the box model visually they usually just rely on style rules to set borders or backgrounds. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
