+gwt-contrib for open discussion

Thanks,
John LaBanca
[email protected]


2010/2/4 Sven Brunken <[email protected]>

>  Sorry for the delay:
>
> http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/139801/show
> http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/138801/show
>
> Sven Brunken
>
>
> Am 04.02.2010 21:04, schrieb John LaBanca:
>
> I'd suggest that Sven upload his patch to rietveid,  and let gwt-contrib
> users will be able to review and comment on it.  Or just start a gwt-contrib
> thread if you'd rather get feedback before doing the work.
>
> Thanks,
> John LaBanca
> [email protected]
>
>
> 2010/2/4 Joel Webber <[email protected]>
>
>> It would be great if we could move this conversation to gwt-contrib to get
>> everyone's feedback. I don't doubt that there are some modifications we
>> could make to HandlerManager and its use in Widget that would make
>> everyone's lives easier :)
>>
>> 2010/2/4 Sven Brunken <[email protected]>
>>
>>  Am 04.02.2010 20:02, schrieb John LaBanca:
>>>
>>> There is no way to change the default HandlerManager in an easy, java
>>>> way. You could hack it with a JSNI call. At the moment it always creates 
>>>> the
>>>> default instance.
>>>
>>> Do you have a user case for replacing it?   We could add a protected
>>> createHandlerManager() method that would allow users to subclass widget and
>>> provide there own, but in my opinion its too rare a use case to support it.
>>>
>>>  I have a more complex HandlerManager with a couple of more features like
>>> event buffering, delayed events etc. Also the normal HandlerManager always
>>> creates the DefaultHandlerRegistration. I have a custom HandlerRegistration
>>> that has a setSuspended(boolean suspended) method that can suspend this
>>> handler temporary.
>>>
>>> I have a couple of own widgets that are far more complex and fire many
>>> more events than the GWT widgets. The changes needed are minimal. I can
>>> publish a small patchfile how i did it to the review system and than you can
>>> have a look.
>>>
>>>
>>>  An other one is inside the RichTextAreaImpl, it links directly to the
>>>> RichTextArea widget, while it should link to the HasInitializeHandlers
>>>> interface, so you can reuse it everywhere.
>>>
>>> RichTextAreaImpl is highly customized for RichTextArea.  Impl classes are
>>> considered off limits, and we don't encourage people to reuse them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  The hookEvents method of the RichTextAreaImpl subclasses links to the
>>>> Widget class, here you could better link the the EventListener interface
>>>> that defines onBrowserEvent method.
>>>
>>> Again, impl classes aren't meant to be reusable.
>>>
>>>
>>>  The change to support this is minimal. I am using this Impl class for an
>>> own RichTextArea. The Impl class has all the features you need to write an
>>> own widget that supports all this. I think they should be made reusable.
>>> FormPanelImpl is doing what i am looking for. It is using the
>>> FormPanelImplHost interface instead of directly FormPanel. That is why it
>>> was easy for me to use the already finished Impl class with an "own"
>>> FormPanel. I will also open a review for this.
>>>
>>>
>>>  I also have fixes for a couple of other issues that are already listed
>>>> in the issuetracker. All changes are backward compatible.
>>>
>>> Bug fixes are always welcome!  You can upload them to rietveld and assign
>>> either jgw or jlabanca as the reviewer, and we'll take a look.
>>> http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>  Great, i will add them.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John LaBanca
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/2/4 Miguel Méndez <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the heads up on the breaking change Sven.  I've added someone
>>>> to this thread that should be able to answer the Widget question.
>>>>
>>>>  We love to get external contributions!  The process for contributing
>>>> code is outlined in Making GWT 
>>>> Better<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Sven Brunken <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Miguel,
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for contacting you directly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to inform you, that your changelog for GWT 2.0.1 is missing
>>>>> one small, but braking, change. In revision 7424 the only contructor of
>>>>> ImageResourcePrototype was changed (
>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/diff?spec=svn7523&r=7424&format=side&path=/trunk/user/src/com/google/gwt/resources/client/impl/ImageResourcePrototype.java).
>>>>> This change leads to braking code, if your code was calling this 
>>>>> contructor.
>>>>> However the fix is quite easy.
>>>>> I am using this class because i modified the ImageResourceGenerator to
>>>>> not generate transparent PNG24 files for IE6. I already raised the issue
>>>>> with using transparent PNG files in IE6 on the contributer mailinglist, 
>>>>> but
>>>>> also after a long discussion, the changes were minimal. The only good news
>>>>> was that IE7 is no longer using the alpha filters.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I also have a couple of small design issues with the Widget class.
>>>>> There is no way to change the default HandlerManager in an easy, java way.
>>>>> You could hack it with a JSNI call. At the moment it always creates the
>>>>> default instance. An other one is inside the RichTextAreaImpl, it links
>>>>> directly to the RichTextArea widget, while it should link to the
>>>>> HasInitializeHandlers interface, so you can reuse it everywhere. The
>>>>> hookEvents method of the RichTextAreaImpl subclasses links to the Widget
>>>>> class, here you could better link the the EventListener interface that
>>>>> defines onBrowserEvent method.
>>>>> I also have fixes for a couple of other issues that are already listed
>>>>> in the issuetracker. All changes are backward compatible.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to contribute them back to you. Are you interested in the
>>>>> patchfiles? And if so, where should a best publish them for review, on the
>>>>> tracker, the contributer mailinglist or in the code review system? Do i 
>>>>> need
>>>>> to sign the CLA before publishing them?
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you find some minutes to come back to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sven Brunken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Miguel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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