[Laszlo-dev] [Platform-team] A few questions about text behavior...

[P T Withington]

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On 2007-08-30, at 18:45 EDT, J Crowley wrote:

> So, I'm working on the test in lztest/lztest-text.lzx, and there  
> are a few questions I have about text's operation.
>
> - In one test, there's a comment that says that if you specify the  
> label attribute on text, it'll override the text attribute.  This  
> test is failing because the text attribute isn't being overridden  
> by label.  I'd actually never seen this behavior before, so I'm not  
> sure whether this is really expected operation.  This is causing  
> two similar errors, one comparing text to label, and the other  
> comparing getText to label.

label has been deprecated for some time and has been deleted from  
4.x.  I would nuke this test, and make a note in the Wiki on porting  
to 4.x that you will have to update any uses of label.

> - How are we measuring text and text spacing?  I get multiple  
> failures saying xspacing should be 11, but it's getting 7.  I'm  
> thinking maybe the spacing we're using has changed?  Not sure.  But  
> such a consistent failure makes me suspect an intentional change  
> and not an error.  I also get a few other miscellaneous text  
> measuring errors, but the biggest and most frequent one is the  
> xspacing one.

Max (cc-ed) is your man here.