Ah. Not so easy. I'm pretty sure that literal % constraints on width/height are handled in the compiler. This is mostly for legacy reasons -- we used to try to do as much as possible at compile time to make things faster (at a loss of dynamicity).
Nowadays we have a lot more power at runtime so we should dispense with the compiler "optimization" and just let these things be handled at runtime. (With the added benefit that you could change the percentage dynamically at run time.) The short/kludge answer is: a) Find the place in the compiler that handles %'s and make it store a copy of the original % in something like _source_width, or b) Just know that it is a percent and back-calculate it. The long/right answer is: 2) Use CSS and write a presentation type that parses both absolute and percent dimensions and can unparse those same dimensions. (See the color presentation type for instance, for a p-t that has multiple representations. The unparser has an optional argument that lets you specify the desired representation format.) On 2011-07-07, at 08:15, [email protected] wrote: > I'm looking for something different. If the user enters '79%' for the width, > I want to obtain the string '79%', not the size which represents 79% of the > canvas width. > > Thanks! > > Phil > > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:43 PM, P T Withington wrote: > >> Well a constraint is really just a handler for the dependent variables that >> updates the actual value, so in this case if you ask for the elements width >> or height, you will get the current real value. The best way to forward >> those values (and track them) is to make another constraint. Constraints >> are easy to write in OL, but hard to write in JS. You can get an inkling of >> a hand-written constraint by looking at the implementation of the align and >> valign attributes that let you say things like 'center', 'top', etc. Those >> get interpreted into constraints on the parent bound. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> On 2011-07-06, at 19:30, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi Tucker, >>> >>> Is it possible to retrieve the raw constraint values of an attribute? For >>> example, >>> >>> <html width="100%" height="100%" .../> >>> >>> I'd like to obtain the 100% values for width and height so I can forward >>> them to the iframemanager. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Phil
