Now that wasn's so hard to explain was it?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] oncreate
>
> --- Doug Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > actually.. I wan to respond to the create event
> > period.
> >
> > My scrollbar allignes all of it's object (buttons)
> > using a function.
> > I want to be able to call that function once the
> > scrollbar has been
> > rendered.
> >
> > But when I add a create listener, it does not get
> > fired.
> > When I add debugging code directly into the api, the
> > oncreate is being
> > fired..
> > but only when I create a new DynLayer().
> > Once I have created the layer, I would like to add
> > the event listsner and
> > then respond to the event.
> > If the event has fired before I am allowed to add
> > the event listsner, how
> > can I respond to the event:
> >
> >
> > var myLayer = new DynLayer(); //create event is
> > fired
> >
> > myLayer.addEventListener({oncreate : function(e){do
> > stuff}}) // too late..
> > the create event has fired.
>
> Well, the "oncreate" event is no longer fired from the
> addEventListener() function. You'll have to use the
> onCreate() function:
>
> layer1=new DynLayer(null,100,180,100,100,"gold")
> layer2=new DynLayer(null,10,10,80,80,"red")
> layer3=new DynLayer(null,10,10,60,60,"yellow")
>
> layer1.onPreCreate(
> function() {alert("In onprecreate");}
> );
> layer1.onCreate(
> function() {alert("In oncreate");}
> );
>
> layer1.addChild(layer2);
> layer2.addChild(layer3);
> dynapi.document.addChild(layer1);
>
> This change greatly improve the creation of layers
> that used the oncreate event.
>
> --
> Raymond Irving
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raymond Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] oncreate
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --- Doug Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > > hmm..
> > > > something funny here: correct me if I am wrong
> > > > the create event now get's fired before you have
> > the
> > > > chance to event add an event listener to the
> > layer?
> > > > This is not good.
> > >
> > > Maybe this can help:
> > >
> > > "The 'create' event that DynLayer invokes works
> > > notably different now. Previously children
> > DynLayers
> > > called the create event before their parents did.
> > At
> > > the time we made this decision it made sense, but
> > > since we're moving ahead now I've put this back to
> > > what it should be. This does impact widget
> > creation in
> > > some manners. In cases where a child layer is
> > resized
> > > to it's content size during the create sequence
> > this
> > > information is no longer available to the parent
> > > DynLayer (where previously it was). If your parent
> > > DynLayer/widget needs to know the size of its
> > children
> > > a recommended workaround is to add a 'precreate'
> > event
> > > listener which attaches a 'create' event to the
> > last
> > > child for use in the widget. "
> > >
> > > If not, are you using the onCreate/onPreCreate()
> > > function to create callback events?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raymond Irving
> > >
> > >
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