Peter,
That is interesting what you are saying. What will happen then if you have
class which extends other one. The parent class is setting typeNames and
derived one also before super? The parent one will override it?
I cannot check now how typeNames is implemented.
Piotr
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 15:13 Peter Ent <p...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote:
> I have been guilty of this and have been using typeNames now. I've found
> that I need to set typeNames before calling super() in the constructor. I
> thought it was done afterwards, but if I set typeNames after calling
> super(), the typeName I set does not show up in the HTML produced.
>
> Also, suppose I have this: A Menu with a label inside of it. People will
> want to change the background color of the menu and the color of the
> label's text. If I were doing this in plain HTML/JS/CSS, I would set a
> selector: .Menu .Label { color: blue; } but that's not supported in the
> Flash Player. So when I set up the typeName for the label inside of the
> Menu should I set it to: Menu_Label or MenuLabel or Menu-Label? And is
> using "." in a selector name a good idea? I would think the CSS processor
> in the browser would be confused between ".x.y" and ".x .y" which can also
> be written as ".x.y". Basically, we should have a consist naming pattern
> here.
>
> ‹peter
>
> On 2/23/18, 4:09 AM, "Gabe Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >There¹s some edge cases which seem problematic. One example:
> >ComboBoxBiew has the following:
> > input = new TextInput();
> > input.className = "ComboBoxTextInput";
> >
> > button = new TextButton();
> > button.className =
> >"opt_org-apache.royale-html-ComboBox_Button";
> >
> >Input and button are both external to the view class, but are managed by
> >the view class. On the other hand, there is a chance that the user might
> >wan to style them. I¹m not sure whether className or typeNames is more
> >appropriate hereŠ
> >
> >Harbs
> >
> >> On Feb 23, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Gabe Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I¹ll help.
> >>
> >>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Quick note before I shut down for the night.
> >>>
> >>> UIBase has both a typeNames and className property. TypeNames is used
> >>>to
> >>> emulate Flex-like type selectors in the CSS lookup. It should be set
> >>>in
> >>> the constructor and never set from outside the class. There are a few
> >>> classes in Basic and lots of classes in MDL that should be upgraded to
> >>>set
> >>> typeNames in the constructor. Subclasses can append to the base
> >>>class's
> >>> typeNames
> >>>
> >>> className is the opposite. It should never be set inside the
> >>>component's
> >>> class. It is for users of that component to set styles on the
> >>>component.
> >>>
> >>> Can we get a volunteer to clean this up?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> -Alex
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
