Hello Wim,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Wim Dumon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/3/16 Maurice Gittens <[email protected]>:
> > But when you invent your own meaning for known concepts it is hard to
> have
> > an informed
> > disscusion. Current WTimer is not a timer like other timers but some
> special
> > thing invented by Emweb.
> >
> > This violates the principle of least surprise because folks expect that
> Wt
> > behaves like a typical
> > UI library (like for example Qt).
> >
>
> I think you're being a little unfair to Wt. Qt's documentation states
> that a QTimer only works in threads with an event loop. The same thing
> applies to Wt's WTimer. Insofar, Wt behaves like a typical UI library.
> So what is different: (1) we don't state it explicitly in the
> documentation, and (2) you can't start your own event loop in Wt.
>
> >
> > Please kindly consider ways to save folks the time wasted by:
> > - unclear interfaces
> > - hidden dependencies
> > - and misleading documentation
> >
>
> We welcome suggestions to improve our documentation as much as bug
> reports. Point taken, WTimer documentation needs clarification. I
> created an issue report for it on our redmine so that this gets fixed
> shortly.
>
> http://redmine.webtoolkit.eu/issues/show/335
>
> Best regards,
> Wim.
>
>
I'm sorry. I do not want to be unfair to Wt. I want it to be better.
But no worries, I will implement my own server; to each his own.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Maurice
>
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