But first you need to add a setter for password in LzInputTextSprite...
And people try to use constraints for "password" quite often:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=4684
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=7394
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=9862
...
JIRA: http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-704
Or, a klever hacker would realize that they should just define a
setter for the parent password attribute that applies the setting
where it is actually needed (saving the overhead of events that the
person who wrote the $once constraint was trying to avoid). I.e.,
'push' the password field to where it is needed. [cc-ing John. there
is probably a place in the docs for the following:] Remember Adam's
first principle of constraints: "They are really handy for rapid
prototyping, but eventually you want to eliminate them." On
2007-10-10, at 18:43 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
> If you look in the edittext component, it says the internal text field
> is using a 'once'
> constraint to look at the parent.password
>
> lps/components/lz/edittext.lzx:
>
> <_internalinputtext name="field"
> password="$once{parent.password}"
>
> So the internal field is not looking at the parent.password value more
> than once at init time.
> That could be changed to an 'always' constraint, I imagine that would
> work better.
>
>
>
> On 10/10/07, James Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all, I think i may have found a bug in the edittext component,
>> but i
>> thought someone might show this to be correct behavior in a way I
>> don't yet
>> see. The issue is setting password="true" on an <edittext/>
>> component. It
>> doesn't seem like the password attribute can be constrained. This
>> example
>> might also reveal a bug with $immediately{} constraints wherein
>> "classroot"
>> and "parent" don't exist when the constraint is evaluated.
>>
>> Anyone have advice on how to make this work?
>>
>> Test case: none of these fields (save the last hardcoded editext) has
>> password styling.
>>
>> <canvas proxied="false" debug="true">
>> <debug/>
>>
>> <class name="pwtest">
>> <attribute name="passwordB" type="boolean" value="true"/>
>> <attribute name="passwordS" type="string" value="true"/>
>> <attribute name="passwordE" type="expression" value="true"/>
>>
>> <simplelayout axis="y"/>
>>
>> <edittext password="${classroot.passwordB}"/>
>> <edittext password="${classroot.passwordS}"/>
>> <edittext password="${classroot.passwordE}"/>
>>
>> <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordB}"/>
>> <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordS}"/>
>> <edittext password="$immediately{classroot.passwordE}"/>
>>
>> <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordB}"/>
>> <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordS}"/>
>> <edittext password="$once{classroot.passwordE}"/>
>>
>> <edittext password="true"/>
>> </class>
>>
>> <pwtest/>
>>
>> </canvas>
>
>
> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
