7:30 – 5:30 SR

• So far the only problem with the new FR app seems to be that people want to use old browser versions, so we’ll need to add a browser test and some kind of splash page.
• Tooltips? I wonder if I can use angular.element to make that work?
• Well I spent the whole morning chasing down bugs that turned out to be a bad merge. I think with TypeScript you may have to use the ‘force update’ option and prevent merging altogether. On the plus side, I managed to remove circular references for the CanvasBase and ComponentBase classes by creating a new file for WebGlInterfaces that has the interfaces for both modules. So now at the top of each of the Canvas and Component modules is

  /// <reference path="WebGlInterfaces.d.ts" />

  and that seems to solve that problem

• Tooltips are now working. Had to write a StyleElement class – it was easier than manipulating the style directly, and this way I was able to use the YUI calls that were in the old code:

  export class StyleElement {
      element:HTMLElement;
      x:number;
      y:number;
      hidden:string;
  
      constructor(e:HTMLElement){
          this.element = e;
          this.x = 0;
          this.y = 0;
          this.hidden = 'visible';
      }
      get(arg:string):any{
          var rval:any = this;
          return rval[arg];
      }
      getX():number{
          return this.x;
      }
      getY():number{
          return this.y;
      }
      setXY(args:number[]){
          this.x = args[0];
          this.y = args[1];
          this.toStyle();
      }
      setHTML(text:string){
          this.element.textContent = text;
      }
      show():void{
          this.hidden = 'visible';
          this.toStyle();
      }
      hide():void{
          this.hidden = 'hidden';
          this.toStyle();
  
      }
  
      isHidden():boolean{
          return (this.hidden === 'hidden');
      }
      toggleView():void{
          if(this.hidden === 'hidden'){
              this.hidden = 'visible';
          }else{
              this.hidden = 'hidden';
          }
          this.toStyle();
      }
      toStyle():void{
          var styleStr = 'left: '+this.x+'px; top:'+this.y+'px; visibility: '+this.hidden;
          this.element.setAttribute("style", styleStr);
          //console.log(this.element.getAttribute("style"));
      }
  }

• I am now kind of paranoid about subversion and am now making full backup copies, since I basically had to do that to restore the project after I realized what happened.
• And as I was testing against browsers, I found that tooltips didn’t work right on FF. That led me down a rabbit hole described in more detail in my blog.