Thanks - that is all logical to me and makes very good sense - I have used a
base form class with all my navigation, add, delete etc etc - so it was easy
to change - already done!
Thanks
Rodgy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul McNett" <[email protected]>
To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Is this a bug?
> Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Roger Lovelock wrote:
>>
>>> Following Sample exhibits the behaviour!
>>
>>
>> OK, there is a bug here, but it has to do with the way that auto-
>> binding of events is handled. I'm not sure why it's looking in both
>> forms for a matching method name, but it is.
>
> I haven't looked, but it probably goes up the self.Parent hierarchy, and
> because one
> form is the child of another...
>
>> I would suggest not using this style of binding, even after we fix
>> the bug.
>
> I agree.
>
> Auto binding of events was another of those ideas that sounded great at
> the time, but
> that I for one never or rarely ended up using in practice. It makes
> samples look
> really cool because there's less code, but in real life I really prefer
> longer,
> explicit code over shorter, implicit code.
>
>> Now it's much simpler to simply pass the event binding in the
>> constructor of the button:
>
>> btn = dabo.ui.dButton(self.mainpanel, Caption="Click Me",
>> OnHit=self.onButton1Click)
>
> Yes, this is the preferred way of doing it when dealing with instances,
> but more
> often than not I define subclasses and do very little, if any, instance
> programming.
> So, I still usually explicitly call self.bindEvent(...) in my subclass
> afterInit method.
>
> But this instance programming style makes code almost as concise as the
> auto-bind
> style, but still explicit, so it is definitely preferred.
>
> Paul
>
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