Yeah, that does sound like a tricky problem if you can't get the
offsetHeight from the DOM. Even though you know the line-height, I don't
know how you could tell how many lines the input takes up.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Fabrice Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Another example where I don't see how to avoid reading the DOM: to edit an
> SVG text, we put on top a non-resizeable textarea that grows in height as
> the user types. I do that by reading the offsetHeight of the textarea on
> each key 'input'  and adjust the svg. One could compute the text size from
> the font, etc but it feels like re-inventing the wheel :/
>
> On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 5:44:26 PM UTC+1, Nick H wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I agree with Rex. The DOM is write-only by design. Going forward, I
>> don't expect there ever to be a generic way to read the DOM... if specific
>> problems come up that absolutely require it, they will be solved by
>> specific APIs, such as in elm-lang/window and elm-lang/dom.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Rex van der Spuy <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  Currently the solution seems to be 1) compute the bounding box manually
>>>> inside the update function whenever the selection <g> is modified, 2) keep
>>>> the bounding box data in the model and 3) use the bounding box from the
>>>> model when the update function performs other operations on the model (e.g.
>>>> detect if a click is inside).
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's how us game developers do it: all the geometry and position data
>>> is in the model. That data is then used to blindly draw the shapes in the
>>> view.
>>>
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