OpenEuphoria

Re: Best Practices Issue

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Feb 08, 2003
• 441 views

Unless you use a custom type and use side effects that is ...
... but even that is not recommended (not to mention, messy coding). :/

jbrown

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:46:40PM +0000, Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:29:48 -0600, "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hey, Jonas, thanks for the response. Here's a follow-up for you (and anybody
> >else who wants to chime in): what do you do if a value changes in your
> >variable, but not as a result of the control itself?
> Umm.... shades of pondering that come back to haunt me. I hang my head
> in shame to remember I once expected this to be someone else's
> responsibility.....
> 
> If you have for example say:
> 
> integer txt_Total
> 
> 	txt_Total=3
> --[1]
> 	...
> 	txt_Total=5
> --[2]
> 	...
> 	txt_Total=7
> --[3]
> 
> You cannot (would not and do not) expect an "event" to be generated at
> points [1], [2], and [3].  You quite obviously just code it yourself.
> 
> The point is, anywhere you do a setText() or similar, you must have
> all the code to handle the changes *your* program just made, sorry.
> 
> Embarrassingly obvious once you think it through 
> 
> Pete
> 
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