Wim, I didn't mean to be offensive, sorry if it sounds this way. I am aware that we are really benefitting from open source software and of course I should not expect to get everything for free the way I want to use it. The time it took did frustrate me because it is so much more than I had estimated but let me be clear that I am not blaming the Nebula team for this. It is very hard to make totally bug free software and keep the programmers using it happy.
I do think that it could be called "yak shaving" from my initial point of view of switching all of my date selectors from DateChooserCombo to CDateTime. I thought in principle it shouldn't take much time to do this because it's a "black box" with as input and output a Date. I estimated that I would need about one and a half hour for this and I still think this would have been a reasonable estimate if I didn't have these issues. Then I found two issues and thought it would be simple to fix the focus issue by adding a focus listener to the text box. I had to further open the black box to get to the text field to do this. This seemed to initially fix the bug, but I found another issue with this fix that it didn't work when pressing the "clear" button. So I should further open up the black box to fix this. At that point I cannot honestly predict what further things I will have to do to fix the issue. In this sense I do think it is like yak shaving. The only wise decision for me is to stop right there. I cannot estimate how long it would take me to fix these two issues. It's not worth it over the alternative of using the DateChooserComboCellEditor which only has a minor issue of not easily selecting a year. Regards, Henno Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Wim Jongman Verzonden: donderdag 21 juni 2012 13:48 Aan: Nebula Dev Onderwerp: Re: [nebula-dev] my issues with Dating Nebula's widgets Thank you for the time you took but I cannot resist a little lecture. I hope to alter some of your perspectives and expectations and I also hope you can agree with me. Here it goes: without the risk of shaving Yaks My understanding of Yak shaving is that you end up doing something completely unrelated. IMO, fixing bugs in code that you use would only be Yak shaving if you are not a programmer. and losing my boss a lot of time. Well... Somebodies boss has to pay for maintaining the widgets right? Don't you think it is fair that your boss chips in? Free does not mean gratis. Best regards, Wim
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