Hmm, it was Gandalf. :)

...and nearly every disney movie. In bush's case, he has a better 
saying; power corrupts...absolute power corrupts absolutely. ;-)

Cheers

> 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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