16110 - [Urg. request] Pls rewrite titledbutton to contain 2 child nodes...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16429

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

[german]

we need to control the text of titledbutton using style attributes in order to
have toolbar buttons (and other) being switched from Image/Text-only. right now
this is cumbersome to do at best since the value is hard-coded into XUL. Upon
removing it, the text title still gets broadcasted into the button, and
removing that will also remove this from a menu.
The cleanest solution would be (since titledbuttons are used universally not
just in buttons) to make 2 independent child elements inside a titledbutton:
- a text label that knows how to crop left, right and middle
- an image
that way (much like splitters) designer can (but don't have to) specify
behavior, alignment and appearance with much greater precision.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

reassigning to evaughan for consideration and triage

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

BTW, the only reasonable severity for this would be "Enhancement"

Comment 3

[german]

sorry! (setting to [Enhancement])
It is blocking us though from implementing the planned look and feel and a few
other FE features.

Comment 4

[Eric Vaughan]

This will require some work. Titled button currenly contain no child nodes so
they would have to become a container and learn to manage their children. I
would guess this would be at least a week to implement and because titledbuttons
are used everywhere. There should also be lots of testing to make sure nothing
is broken by it.

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

shaver is deep into this, but this really isn't dogfood, so it's going to have
to wait a while.

Comment 6

[David Hyatt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16429 ***

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

verified dup