Autofocus

[Ramon Leon]

Good enough, appreciate the explanation.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-smallwiki at iam.unibe.ch 
> [mailto:owner-smallwiki at iam.unibe.ch] On Behalf Of Lukas Renggli
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:42 AM
> To: smallwiki at iam.unibe.ch
> Subject: Re: Autofocus
> 
> > Anyone know what happened to autofocus on magritte descriptions?   
> > With this gone, how are you currently putting the cursor in 
> the first 
> > field when an edit form appears?
> 
> I removed it.
> 
> The problem was basically because there is no good place to 
> put this property and the following problems:
> 
> - you could have multiple descriptions within the same form 
> where auto-focus was set to true, especially when composing 
> descriptions at runtime from several different sources.
> 
> - #autofocus: did not work with some more complex 
> form-elements like one-to-one, one-to-many, multiple-selection, ...
> 
> - when changing from WAHtmlRenderer to WACanvasRenderer there 
> was no replacement for the method #autofocus:, however this 
> could be easily added again.
> 
> - I felt that is unnecessary to have #autofocus: in the 
> description itself, if you really need to automatically focus 
> an element you probably do a sophisticated manual rendering anyway.
> 
> - proper separation of view and meta-model, something 
> Stéphane Ducasse and I just recently discussed: a problem in 
> the current version of Magritte is that I mix meta-stuff and 
> Seaside/Morphic configuration, such as #componentClass:, 
> #attributes, #morphicClass,
> #autofocus: ... this should be the responsibility of a 
> different object, not the description itself. It leads to 
> some hard to tackle problems with extension-methods, if you 
> want to use descriptions with/ without different 
> view-implementations, however it is not easy to solve. Maybe 
> something for Magritte 1.1 ;-)
> 
> Lukas
> 
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> Lukas Renggli
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