[General] Morph Properties and Persistence

> I assigned a value to a custom property on a Morph. After I save the  
> world to the wiki and load again, that property does not exist. The  
> case here is that I wrote a new layout manager, have been attaching  
> constraints to morphs, when I reload the constraints are gone, and  
> subsequently child morphs do not resize when I resize the morph.
>
> How do I persist the custom properties of a Morph?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Phil
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> Hi Phil,
>
> can you give an example?
>
> Deserialization should work for common values (but not for all objects). In
> http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/repository/lively-wiki/testworld3.xhtml I
> assigned values to the red rectangle (testValue, testValue2).
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2009,@12:26 AM, Philip Weaver wrote:
>
>  I assigned a value to a custom property on a Morph. After I save the world
>> to the wiki and load again, that property does not exist. The case here is
>> that I wrote a new layout manager, have been attaching constraints to
>> morphs, when I reload the constraints are gone, and subsequently child
>> morphs do not resize when I resize the morph.
>>
>> How do I persist the custom properties of a Morph?
>>
>> Much appreciated,
>> Phil
>> _______________________________________________
>> General mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/mailman/listinfo/general
>>
>
>

> I'm done some more digging. It appears that I just need to use models. I
> found what I think are good examples
> in CheapListMorph.initialize/getSelection/setSelection) and I found
> ViewTrait in Core.js. I don't think I really need or want to use the Widget
> class atm but I see that many of the examples which use it. I'm just trying
> to store layout constraint info with a morph when it gets serialized. I'll
> post a code example if I don't get models working.
> Thank Robert.
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009@11:56 AM, Robert Krahn <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> can you give an example?
>>
>> Deserialization should work for common values (but not for all objects).
>> In
>> http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/repository/lively-wiki/testworld3.xhtml I
>> assigned values to the red rectangle (testValue, testValue2).
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2009,@12:26 AM, Philip Weaver wrote:
>>
>>  I assigned a value to a custom property on a Morph. After I save the
>>> world to the wiki and load again, that property does not exist. The case
>>> here is that I wrote a new layout manager, have been attaching constraints
>>> to morphs, when I reload the constraints are gone, and subsequently child
>>> morphs do not resize when I resize the morph.
>>>
>>> How do I persist the custom properties of a Morph?
>>>
>>> Much appreciated,
>>> Phil
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> General mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/mailman/listinfo/general
>>>
>>
>>
>