As i say, i don't blame anyone.
I thought that was some ninja special effective.
Thanks for you explanations.
Regards
2013/5/16 Derrell Lipman <derrell.lip...@unwireduniverse.com>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Benjamin Dreux
> <dreux.benja...@uqam.ca>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm looking at qx.ui.table.Table source code.
>> And i've noticed this
>> this.__selectionManager = this.getNewSelectionManager()(this);
>> I don't point this as beeing an error.
>> I'm sure there is a really good reason for this.
>> Could someone explain what this line do. why this "(this)" is used??
>>
>
> That's really old code. I wrote it, and I'll take the blame. :-)
>
> Notice that getNewSelectionManager is a function that's being called. That
> function returns another function, which is the one that instantiates the
> selection manager. At the time I wrote it, I think I probably didn't know
> how to bind that inner function to a particular context, so I had the
> context be passed to the inner function so it could reference Table
> instance members. Were I to do it today, I would likely have bound the
> inner function to that context, so that when called, it already had the
> proper context as 'this'. Changing it at this point, though, would not be
> backward compatible.
>
> Derrell
>
>
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