What version are you testing against? Your example runs fine for me
(with deprecation warnings):
INFO @wallace.lzx#1: #canvas.getAttribute('someAttr') is deprecated.
Use #canvas['someAttr'] instead.
someAttr value before an attempt to change false
INFO @wallace.lzx#1: #canvas.getAttribute('someAttr') is deprecated.
Use #canvas['someAttr'] instead.
someAttr value after attempt to change true
lzx> Debug.versionInfo()
URL:
http://dueling-banjos.local:8080/ringding-clean/test/wallace.lzx?lzt=object&lzt=object&debug=true&lzr=dhtml&lzbacktrace=true
Version: 4.1.x.0
Release: RingDing
Build: 8366 /Users/ptw/OpenLaszlo/ringding-clean
Date: 2008-03-24T12:59:25-0400
Target: dhtml
Runtime: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:
1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
lzx>
On 2008-03-24, at 14:07 EDT, Alexander Wallace wrote:
Hi all.. this is a really stupid question, but I can't find out why
it doesn't work... I'll type some pseudo code here:
<canvas>
<attribute name="someAttr" type="boolean" value="false" />
<method name="init">
super.init();
Debug.write("someAttr value before an attempt to change",
getAttribute("someAttr"));
setAttribute("someAttr", true);
Debug.write("someAttr value after attempt to change",
getAttribute("someAttr"));
</method>
</canvas>
Well... No matter what combination of accessing the var I've tried,
i can't change the original value... What am i doing wrong?
Thanks!