On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:09:39PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > toad wrote: > > Why should a client care about WithDefaults ? > > > This way the client knows what all the settings are set to without > having to know anything special about Fred's current thoughts on what > the defaults are.
Sure, so always show all of them? > > Also, clients should set one or two settings to change, not the whole > > lot; there may be other changes going on in parallel. > > > I believe the approach I used will set anywhere from one to all of the > settings at once, depending on the needs of the client. I tested it by > changing my node's name without providing any other items. Hmmm. So it will. Cool. The client also needs to be able to get the defaults, short and long descriptions, whether a setting is expert etc, although the existing code provides for the needs of most clients. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20061031/93a79b19/attachment.pgp>
