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<title>Space Manager High Level Design</title>
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<meta name="author" content="Marc Attinasi (attinasi@netscape.com)">
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<h1><font color="#cc0000">Gecko Layout High Level Design Document</font></h1>
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<h1>Space Manager High Level Design</h1>
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<br>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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The Space Manager and associated classes and strructures are used by Block
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and Line layout to manage rectangular regions that are occupied and available,
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for correct handling of floated elements and the elements that flow around
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them. When elements are floated to the left or right in a layout, they
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take up space and influence where other elements can be placed. The
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Space Manager is responsible for keeping track of where space is taken up
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and where it is available. This information is used by block layout to correctly
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compute where other floated elements should be placed, and how much space
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is available to normal in-flow elements that flow around the floated bits.<br>
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<br>
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The Space Manager works in concert with several other classes to do its
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job. The classes that are considered part of the Space Manager are:<br>
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<ul>
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<li>nsSpaceManager</li>
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<li>nsBandData</li>
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<li>nsBlockBandData</li>
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<li>BandRect / BandList (private structs)</li>
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<li>FrameInfo (private struct)</li>
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<li>nsBandtrapezoid</li>
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</ul>
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Outside of the Space Manager itself, the clients of the Space Manager also
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play an inportant part in the management of he available and used space.
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The primary classes that interact with the Space Manager are:<br>
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<ul>
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<li>nsBlockReflowState</li>
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<li>nsBlockFrame</li>
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<li>nsBoxToBlockAdaptor</li>
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</ul>
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The general interaction model is to create a Space Manager for a block
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frame in the context of a Reflow, and to associate it with the BlockReflowState
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so it is passed down to child frames' reflow methods. After reflow, the
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Space Manager is destroyed. During reflow, the space manager stores
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the space taken up by floats (UpdateSpaceManager in nsBlockFrame) and
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provides information about the space available for other elements (GetAvailableSpace
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in nsBlockReflowState). <br>
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<br>
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Additionally, there is a need to manage impacts to lines caused by
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changes to floated elements. This is referred to as Propagation
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of Float Damage and is handled by the Block Frame, making use of the
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Space Manager. When a float is incrementally reflowed, the Space
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Manager is notified if the float's region has changed. If so, the
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vertical space that has been affected (including both the float's old
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region and the float's new region) is noted in the internal
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nsIntervalSet as potential float damage (the method is
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IncludeInDamage). During the incremental reflow of dirty lines the
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block frame may encounter lines that are NOT dirty. In this case the
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Space Manager is also asked if there is any float damage, and
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if there is then the block further checks to see if that damage
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intersects the area of the non-dirty line, marking it dirty if there
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is intersection. Thus, changes to floats on other lines may
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cause impact to otherwise clean lines, and the Space Manager
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facilitates the detection of this. <h2>Data Model</h2>
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<h4>Class/Component Diagram</h4>
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<blockquote>
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<div align="Left"><img src="SpaceManagerClasses.png" alt="SpaceManager Class Diagram" idth="500" eight="459" title="Example Class Diagram">
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<br>
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</div>
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</blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>nsSpaceManager: The central point of management of the space taken
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up by floats in a block</li>
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<li>nsBandData: Provides information about the frames occupying a band
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of occupied or available space</li>
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<li>nsBlockBandData: A specialization of nsBandData that is used by
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nsBlockReflowState to determine the available space, float impacts, and
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where floats are cleared. Essentially a CSS-specific wrapper for
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generic nsBandData.</li>
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<li>BandRect: Keeps the bounds of a band, along with the frames associated
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with the band. BandRects are a linked list (provided by PRCListStr
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super-class) and also provide some geometry-management methods (SplitVertically,
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SplitHorizontally) and some methods that query or manipulate the frames associated
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with the band (IsOccupiedBy, AddFrame, RemoveFrame).</li>
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<li>BandList: A subclass of BandRect that provides a list interface
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- Head(), Tail(), IsEmpty(), etc.</li>
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<li>FrameInfo: A structure that keeps information about the rectangle
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associated with a specific frame, in a linked list.</li>
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<li>nsBandTrapezoid: Represents the discrete regions within a band that
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are either Available, Occupied by a single frame, or Occupied by several
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frames. This is used to communicate information about the space in
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the band to the clients of the SpaceManager. There is no internal use
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of the nsBandTrapezoid by the Space Manager, rather it uses its internal
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BandList to create a BandData collection, which is largely made up of nsTrapezoid
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data.<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Use Case</h2>
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<h4>Use Case 1: Space Manager is Created / Destroyed</h4>
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Space Manager instances are created in the nsBlockFrame's Reflow method.
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li>An instance is created </li>
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<li>The BlockReflowState's previous Space Manager is saved off.</li>
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<li>The new Space Manager instance is associated with the BlockReflowState.
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</li>
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<li>After the block frame's Reflow has completed, the old Space Manager
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instance is re-associated with the BlockReflowState</li>
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<li>The new Space Manager is destroyed.</li>
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</ul>
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If the BlockReflowState already had a Space Manager instance associated
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with it, it is stored off before being replaced, and the returned to the
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BlockReflowState instance after the new one has been destroyed. Thus,
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Space Managers are effectively 'nested' during reflow, with each new block
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introducing its own Space Manager.
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<h4>Use Case 2: Float is added to the Space Manager</h4> After a Space Manager is created for a block context's reflow chain, a
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floated block may be added to it. This happens in the method <i>nsBlockReflowState::RecoverFloats</i> and
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<i>nsBlockReflowState::FlowAndPlaceFloat</i> (formerly this was done in nsBlockFrame::UpdateSpaceManager). <br>
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<br>
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The general algorightm in <i>nsBlockReflowState::RecoverFloats</i> is:<br>
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<ul>
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<li>For each line in the block, see if it has floated blocks</li>
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<li>If floats are in the line, iterate over the floats and add each
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one to the Space Manager via the AddRectRegion method. The actual rect
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for the frame is cached in an nsFloatCache so it does not have to be recomputed.</li>
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<li>If the block has any block children, then translate the Space Manager
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to the child block's origin and update the space manager in the context
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for the child block, recursively. When done with the child, restore the Space
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Managers coordinates by translating by the negative of the child block's
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origin. <br>
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</li>
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</ul><br>
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The general algorightm in <i>nsBlockReflowState::FlowAndPlaceFloat</i> is:<br>
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<ul>
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<li>The region that the float currently occupies is recorded.</li>
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<li>The band of available space is searched (with nsBlockReflowState::GetAvailableSpace);</li>
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<li>The float frame that is get from the passed nsFloatCache argument is reflowed
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and its rect is retrieved with GetRect;</li>
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<li>The floats margins are added;</li>
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<li>Check if the float can be placed in the acutal band: if not advance to the next band;</li>
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<li>Check the float type and if it can be added to the space manager;</li>
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<li>Align the float to its containing block top if rule
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#float-position">CSS2/9.5.1/4</a>
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is not respected;</li>
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<li>Add the float using <i>nsSpaceManager::AddRectRegion</i> </li>
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<li>Compare the area that the float used to occupy with the area that it now occupies: if different,
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record the vertically affected interval using <i>nsSpaceManager::IncludeInDamage</i></li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Use Case 3: Space Manager is used to find available space to reflow
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into</h4>
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The nsBlockFrame makes use of the Space Manager indirectly to get the available
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space to reflow a child block or inline frame into. The block frame uses
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a helper method on the nsBlockReflowState class to do the actual computation
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of available space based on the data in the Space Manager. Here is how it
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works for reflowing an inline frame within a block (this also occurs for
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reflowing a block frame and, partially, for preparing for a resize reflow).<br>
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<ul>
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<li>nsBlockFrame first frees all float information for the line that
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is being reflowed.</li>
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<li>GetAvailableSpace is called on the BlockReflowState</li>
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<li>the BlockReflowState calls GetAvailableSpace on its BlockBandData
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instance (which was setup in the BlockReflowState's constructor based on
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the SpaceManager passed in and computed content area).</li>
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<li>BlockBandData then gets the band data from the space manager via
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a call to the Space Manager associated with the BlockBandData instance.</li>
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<li>The BlockBandData then walks the collection of trapezoids that were
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returned by the SpaceManager method GetBandData (as nsBandData wrappers)
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and determines the right-most edge of the available space.</li>
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<li>The BlockReflowState then stores this available space rect for use
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in the rest of the reflow chain.<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Use Case 4: Propagation of Float Damage: detecting and handling float
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damage</h4>
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This process is driven by the Block Frame.<br>
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<ul>
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<li>A non-dirty line is encountered by the Block Frame in ReflowDirtyLines</li>
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<li>Block Frame calls its PropagateFloatDamage method</li>
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<li>The Space Manager is checked to see if there is any float damage</li>
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<li>If there is, then the block frame asks the Space Manager if the
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line in question intersects the float damage</li>
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<li>If the line does intersect a damage interval, then the line is marked
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dirty</li>
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<li>If the line does not intersect a damage interval, it may still be
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marked dirty if:</li>
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<ul>
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<li>it was impacted by floats before, but is not any longer</li>
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<li>it was not impacted by floats befre, but is now</li>
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<li><a name="block-line-impact"></a>
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it is impacted by floats and is a block<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2"><br>
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<h1><font color="#ff0000">Problems / bugs found during documentation:</font></h1>
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<li>BandRect and BandList are public in nsSpaceManager.h - should be
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private (compiles fine)</li>
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<li>nsSpaceManager data members are declared protected, but there are
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no subclasses. Should be private (compiles fine)</li>
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<li>nsBlockFrame::Paint is mucking with nsBlockBandData in and #if 0
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block - remove that and the include (compiles fine)</li>
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<li>nsSpaceManger has no way of clearing the float damage interval
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set - this might be needed if the SpaceManager persists beyond a Reflow</li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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