2 files changed, 44 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
index 7d3acaea7..9e7d364ea 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@
     // touch action none means that the browser will handle none of the touch actions. this allows us to implement our own actions.
     touch-action: none;
     transform-origin: top left;
+    > svg {
+        height: 100%;
+        width: 100%;
+        margin: auto;
+    }
 
     .collectionfreeformview-placeholder {
         background: gray;
@@ -270,34 +275,31 @@
     padding: 10px;
 
     .msg {
-      position: relative;
-      // display: block;
-      -webkit-user-select: none;
-      -khtml-user-select: none;
-      -moz-user-select: none;
-      -o-user-select: none;
-      user-select: none;
-      
+        position: relative;
+        // display: block;
+        -webkit-user-select: none;
+        -khtml-user-select: none;
+        -moz-user-select: none;
+        -o-user-select: none;
+        user-select: none;
     }
-    
+
     .gif-container {
-      position: relative;
-      margin-top: 5px;
-      // display: block;
-
-      justify-content: center;
-      align-items: center;
-      -webkit-user-select: none;
-      -khtml-user-select: none;
-      -moz-user-select: none;
-      -o-user-select: none;
-      user-select: none;
-
-      
+        position: relative;
+        margin-top: 5px;
+        // display: block;
+
+        justify-content: center;
+        align-items: center;
+        -webkit-user-select: none;
+        -khtml-user-select: none;
+        -moz-user-select: none;
+        -o-user-select: none;
+        user-select: none;
+
         .gif {
             background-color: transparent;
             height: 300px;
         }
     }
-
 }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index 53dc389b4..be19fc50f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import { LightboxView } from '../../LightboxView';
 import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView, CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper } from '../../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
 import { SchemaCSVPopUp } from '../../nodes/DataVizBox/SchemaCSVPopUp';
 import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
+import { FieldViewProps, FocusViewOptions } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../../nodes/trails/PresBox';
 import { CreateImage } from '../../nodes/WebBoxRenderer';
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return 'CollectionFreeFormView(' + this.Document.title?.toString() + ')';
     } // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
 
+    @observable _paintedId = 'id' + Utils.GenerateGuid().replace(/-/g, '');
+    @computed get paintFunc() {
+        const paintFunc = StrCast(this.Document[DocData].paintFunc).trim();
+        return !paintFunc
+            ? ''
+            : `const dashDiv = document.querySelector('#${this._paintedId}'); 
+        (async () => {  ${paintFunc} })()`;
+    }
     constructor(props: any) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
@@ -1227,6 +1235,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 onKey={this.onKeyDown}
                 onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
                 onBrowseClickScript={this.onBrowseClickHandler}
+                bringToFront={this.bringToFront}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={childLayout.z ? this.ScreenToLocalBoxXf : this.ScreenToContentsXf}
                 PanelWidth={childLayout[Width]}
                 PanelHeight={childLayout[Height]}
@@ -1482,6 +1491,13 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 );
             })
         );
+
+        this._disposers.paintFunc = reaction(
+            () => ({ code: this.paintFunc, first: this._firstRender, width: this.Document._width, height: this.Document._height }),
+            ({ code, first }) => code && !first && eval(code),
+            { fireImmediately: true }
+        );
+
         this._disposers.layoutElements = reaction(
             // layoutElements can't be a computed value because doLayoutComputation() is an action that has side effect of updating clusters
             () => this.doInternalLayoutComputation,
@@ -1847,6 +1863,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return (
             <div
                 className="collectionfreeformview-container"
+                id={this._paintedId}
                 ref={r => {
                     this.createDashEventsTarget(r);
                     this._oldWheel?.removeEventListener('wheel', this.onPassiveWheel);
@@ -1868,7 +1885,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                     width: `${100 / (this.nativeDimScaling || 1)}%`,
                     height: this._props.getScrollHeight?.() ?? `${100 / (this.nativeDimScaling || 1)}%`,
                 }}>
-                {this._lightboxDoc ? (
+                {this.paintFunc ? null : this._lightboxDoc ? (
                     <div style={{ padding: 15, width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>
                         <DocumentView
                             {...this._props}