Johannes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:04:16PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> > "Percentage values: refer to parent element's width"
> >
> > So a Textblock wants to decide how big it is, and it asks its children
> > how big they are, and the child has, say, text-indent: 50%, and so it
> > gets to wordWrap and asks "So, ah...how big are _you_?". And the parent
> > doesn't know yet.
>
> Ah interesting....
>
> What about using something like availWidth in Textblock::wordWrap() as an
> aproximation of the future width of the Textblock?
> Maybe this would be good enough.
> In which cases would this be way off?
That's a good idea!
It seems to work pretty well in general...
(You will note that this ignores negative values (LENGTH_PERCENTAGE) and
allows overflow.)
