OK. I reported this issue as the following bug
http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-2273

thanks.
Sanjaya

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at  2:02 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> It's a bug!  Please report.
>
> fontsize has a setter, when you write a setter, the responsibility 
> for sending and event belongs to you.  The setter for fontsize 
> doesn't send an event.  Hence the bug.
>
> The reasoning for giving setters responsibility for sending the event 
> is to give the setter writer more freedom; e.g., they may be able to 
> optimize the sending (if the attribute didn't change).  But with 
> freedom comes responsibility.  [I think either my father or George 
> Bush said that.  :P]
>
> On 2006-06-28, at 16:48 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am confuse about the default "on"{attribute} event because it 
>> doesn't
>> work for the "fontsize" attribute.
>> Which is not concur to the  'Implicit "on" events' doc:
>>
>> http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps-3.3/docs/guide/methods-events- 
>> attributes.html#d0e14234
>> =start quote=
>> Any defined attribute has an associated event called "on" plus the 
>> name
>> of the attribute.
>> Whenever the value of any attribute is updated using the 
>> setAttribute(),
>> its associated "on" event is generated.
>> For example, the "height" attribute of a view has an associated
>> "onheight" event that is generated whenever the view's height 
>> changes.
>> These events are implicit in the sense that they are build into the
>> system — you don't have to declare them or send them.
>> =end quote=
>>
>> consider the following testcase
>> Thanks
>> Sanjaya
>>
>> <canvas debug="true">
>>      <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="10" />
>>      <method event="onfontsize" reference="mytext">
>>      <![CDATA[
>>          Debug.write('<method event="onfontsize" 
>> reference="mytext">');
>>      ]]>
>>      </method>
>>
>>      <method event="ontext" reference="mytext">
>>      <![CDATA[
>>          Debug.write('<method event="ontext" reference="mytext">');
>>      ]]>
>>      </method>
>>
>>
>>      <text id="mytext" text="1" fontsize="11">
>>          <method event="onfontsize">
>>          <![CDATA[
>>              Debug.write('<method event="onfontsize">');
>>          ]]>
>>          </method>
>>
>>          <method event="ontext">
>>          <![CDATA[
>>              Debug.write('<method event="ontext">');
>>          ]]>
>>          </method>
>>      </text>
>>
>>      <button text="decrease text"
>> onclick="mytext.setAttribute('text',(mytext.text*1)-1);"/>
>>      <button text="increase text"
>> onclick="mytext.setAttribute('text',(mytext.text*1)+1);"/>
>>
>>      <text id="output1" text="${mytext.text}" resize="true"/>
>>
>>      <!-- why the "onfontsize" event doesn't get triggerred after
>> modifying its value with setAttribute() ?-->
>>      <button text="decrease fontsize"
>> onclick="mytext.setAttribute('fontsize',mytext.fontsize-1);"/>
>>      <button text="increase fontsize"
>> onclick="mytext.setAttribute('fontsize',mytext.fontsize+1);"/>
>>
>>      <text id="output2" text="${mytext.fontsize}" resize="true"/><!--
>> why I am not automatically refreshed? -->
>>
>>      <!-- the 'output' does get refreshed after manually sending
>> 'onfontsize' event -->
>>      <button text="manually send 'onfontsize' event"
>> onclick="mytext.onfontsize.sendEvent()" />
>> </canvas>
>>
>>
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