[Laszlo-user] attribute setters

[Greg Denton]

I upgraded to 4.2b2 and am trying to figure out and work my way
through all the 'setFoo deprecated' warnings. Here's a good ref:
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Runtime_Differences#Attribute_setters_defined_with_.3Csetter.2F.3E

One of the first library files I looked at to get examples was
edittext and came across this for maxlength:

        <attribute name="maxlength" value="null" type="number"/>
        ....
        <method name="init">
            ...
            field.setAttribute('maxlength', this.maxlength);
            field.setAttribute('pattern', this.pattern);

            ]]>
        </method>
        ...
        <method name="setMaxlength" args="n">
          this.setAttribute('maxlength', n);
          this.field.setAttribute('maxlength', n);
        </method>

Seems like the "setter" tag was not used just to avoid setting the
field attribute before init. But isn't this a bug since field's
maxlength will not be set when edittext.setAttribute('maxlength', 20)
is called? Or, is this a common pattern for setters?

Thanks.