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Re: Drop list is not shown [message #43934 is a reply to message #43927]

Sat, 22 November 2014 13:37

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In my opinion here we have fundamental problem with GUI routines. Calling the routine, you have no idea if it updates/refreshes the control. I'm sure you've also met this problem many times before U++. You most probably don't have this problem with U++ because you wrote this code yourself. Razz

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In my opinion many GUI routines break one important rule called "No surprises!"
Bot how to achieve that?
More of that, how to achieve it without breaking existing code base?
So here is my proposal. Each public routine which actually updates/refreshes GUI state of control MUST have one last optional parameter. For example: Ctrl::Routine(..., bool updateControl = true).
Adding it you
1) give developer solid understanding if control is updated, not only it's internal state
2) make possible "batched" refreshments where control is updated once after a number of changes
3) give developer functionality to "break" possible dead-loops (our problem is an excellent example)

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		Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Mon, 10 November 2014 17:06
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Wed, 12 November 2014 11:25
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Wed, 12 November 2014 20:15
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Thu, 13 November 2014 13:16
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Thu, 13 November 2014 19:43
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Thu, 13 November 2014 22:39
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Fri, 14 November 2014 16:10
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Sun, 16 November 2014 15:51
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Sun, 16 November 2014 16:39
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Sun, 16 November 2014 16:39
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Sun, 16 November 2014 17:28
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Sun, 16 November 2014 17:25
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Sun, 16 November 2014 17:47
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Wed, 19 November 2014 00:21
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Thu, 20 November 2014 20:44
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Fri, 21 November 2014 00:52
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Fri, 21 November 2014 11:50
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: Mindtraveller on Sat, 22 November 2014 13:37
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: mirek on Mon, 24 November 2014 11:41
		Re: Drop list is not shown By: ManfredHerr on Fri, 14 November 2014 18:43

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