Right. My question is more related to TextFlowLines than Slugs though. Let’s say a flowComposer has an array of TextFlowLines and the geometry of them does not fit in the new composition space. What is supposed to happen to the old TextFlowLines? I’m having trouble understanding the architecture here.
What I would have done if I was designing the engine would be to recalculate geometry of the TextFlowLine each time I’m composing it. If the geometry changed, I’d throw out the old TextLine and ask the textBlock for a new one. Getting new TextLines, I see, but recalculating the geometry I don’t. I assume I’m missing something obvious. If someone can help me spot it, that would be great! (BTW I just fixed a vertical placement issue with table blocks. I’m committing it now.) On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:17 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > I don’t know for sure, I just looked up the Slug class. It says it is > created by Parcels to track geometrical line information. > > Maybe a simpler test case would help you understand the desired behavior? > I would think at some point if the composable areas change, the Parcels > and their Slugs get updated. It would probably be either at the beginning > when the composition is given new bounds, or more likely, gradually as the > composer works its way down through the container and on to the next > container. If a Parcel and its Slugs (I’m going to start a band with that > name!) gets moved to a different container, you would think there would be > some invalidation of that Parcel if any information is cached, or maybe no > old information is supposed to matter and everything gets recomputed > during composition. > > If the table work has changed the recalculation of the Slugs because > you’ve deferred it in order to compute table cells, that might be the > cause. > > I’m not sure how well the code works for non-rectangular parcels. > > Good luck, > -Alex > > On 11/17/14, 3:27 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just to be a little clearer: >> >> I’m not sure why this used to work, and now it doesn’t. >> >> It seems to me that if the parcel changes on a TextFlowLine, the >> outerTargetWidth could be changed and the TextLine regenerated. (Then the >> Slug and the outerTargetWidth should match.) The thing is, the code did >> not used to do that and I’m not sure how/why. >> >> Another issue with this approach is what happens if we add the ability to >> have non-rectangular parcels. The the TextFlowLine width should need to >> be refigured every time it’s composed (which is something that I don’t >> think is happening currently). Of course there’s no reason to worry about >> that until we might be adding that support… >> >> I’m also not entirely sure what the check that’s failing is supposed to >> be checking for… >> >> Harbs >> >> On Nov 17, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I took a little break on this to deal with some other crises. >>> >>> I found where it’s going off: >>> >>> In BaseCompose.fitLineToParcel() this check was failing: >>> >>> // check to see if we got a good line >>> if (Twips.to(_lineSlug.width) != >>> _curLine.outerTargetWidthTW) >>> return false; >>> The reason it’s failing is because the _lineSlug width does not match >>> the new width of the line. (The first column/parcel is wider than the >>> second.) >>> >>> When it fails, the composer tries to keep getting the next line and >>> upping the line absolute start but the _currentElementOffset does not >>> get increased until we get an error. >>> >>> So, I’m back to my original question. What’s the correct way to deal >>> with this situation? I’m not 100% sure how line slugs and TexFlowLines >>> are supposed to interact. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> A bit more progress: It looks like things go off where the text flows >>>> from one container into another mid-paragraph… >>>> >>>> (Sorry for polluting the mailing list with this. I’ll try to be quiet >>>> until I figure it out…) >>>> >>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It’s pretty big. >>>>> >>>>> It consistently gets out of whack at the end of the second paragraph. >>>>> I’m getting closer to where it’s going off… >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:01 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/6/14, 2:02 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I think it’s _curElementOffset which gets updated. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It does look like something is getting out of sync. I’m just not >>>>>>> sure yet >>>>>>> what. This is one of those areas that’s way too fragile IMHO… Every >>>>>>> time >>>>>>> I’ve run into these kinds of issues it’s taken me days to figure out >>>>>>> exactly what’s off. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is the paragraph huge? In the past I simply have to watch each line >>>>>> get >>>>>> created, figure out what is in the line, and how much the offset >>>>>> should >>>>>> change and verify it changed. This was when I was dealing with some >>>>>> unicode character issues where an atom could be made of more than one >>>>>> character. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Alex >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
