RE: addLayoutManager refactored

2003-08-20 Thread Victor Mote
Chris Bowditch wrote: > thanks for taking the time to explain, I had a quick look at the code and > have a basic understanding of what you've done. That change gets you one > step closer to decoupling layout from the FO Tree. I'm interested in what > the next step in the effort to decouple layout

RE: addLayoutManager refactored

2003-08-20 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: "Victor Mote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So the answer to your second question is that the Visitor doesn't have anything to do with the layout managers, except as a means to an end. The only downside that I can see is that the abstract FOTreeVisitor needs to be updated if the super/sub class rel

RE: addLayoutManager refactored

2003-08-19 Thread Victor Mote
Chris Bowditch wrote: > I hope you dont me asking, but I am curious about the work you are doing. > Why did you name this object Visitor? What does it mean in terms > of a Layout > Manager? Please understand I'm not trying to critise, I'm just trying to > understand. It is a good question, and I

Re: addLayoutManager refactored

2003-08-19 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: "Victor Mote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those who are interested in / concerned about the line of development I am taking, I submit this report, to try to make your task easier. I just committed a change that completely refactors all of the addLayoutManager methods that were in the FObj subcla