On 11/12/16, 8:45 AM, "carlos.rov...@gmail.com on behalf of Carlos Rovira"
<carlos.rov...@gmail.com on behalf of carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
>Hi Alex,
>
>I think the way you allowed html text in js:Button was adding only
>
> [DefaultProperty("text")]
>
>right? is needed something more?
>
>I think this would be needed in most controls and Containers.
>For example js:Container has already [DefaultProperty("mxmlContent")]
>
>Could we have the possibility to add either html text or mxml content?
>
>I think this will improve a lot the things user can do.
>
What would the text/html property do on a Container? The basic container
doesn't automatically contain a way to display text/html, it just contains
an arbitrary set of children. Sure, container happens to be a div in the
browser, but I don't think you can count on that in other platforms
forever.
That said, I think you may be right that you can't use xhtml tags as the
value of the "html" property. Please try it and if it doesn't work, file
a bug.
What [DefaultProperty] does is essentially inject a tag in mxml. For
example, an container really does have an mxmlContent property. So when
you write:
<js:Container>
<js:Label />
</js:Container>
The actual MXML parse tree is:
<js:Container>
<js:mxmlContent>
<fx:Array>
<js:Label />
</fx:Array>
</js:mxmlContent>
</js:Container>
That's why you can't have two default properties. Or maybe shouldn't. I
suppose we could and have the compiler guess based on the type of the
child tags, but that doesn't seem right.
So anyway, what should work is in-line xhtml as the value of the html
property. IOW a plain text label should look like the following MXML:
<js:Button text="plain text label"/>
For a simple html label, you should be able to do:
<js:Button text="this is an <b>html</b> label"/>
And this should also work, with or without [DefaultProperty]
<js:Button>
<js:html>
<h1>My Fancy Button</h1>
<p>With <span>this label</span></p>
<js:html>
<js:Button>
If these don't work, file bugs and well get them to work.
[DefaultProperty] just saves you from having to type some inner tags.
HTH,
-Alex
