[Gambas-user] Documentation: Events not firing in dynamically instantiated forms.

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> > I must admit that I don't really care: I think I understand what happens to
> > a good extent and if someone asks the question again, I can pull of the
> > explanation again (or more likely I'll link to this thread).
> 
> Rhetorically, wouldn't it be nice, though, if someone didn't *have* to ask?
> 
> 
> > If everything was in the docs, what fun would there be in learning [ being
> > able to discover things on your own over time ] ?;-)  It's at least what I
> > enjoy most.
> 
> Lol. Yes, discovering and learning can be fun.
> 
> But, I think it is more fun to learn how to do something with the tools 
> at hand than having to learn the special nuances of any particular tool.
> 
> As a farmer, I sometimes have to make a tool to get the job done. Do I 
> enjoy that? Well, I enjoy making things. But I do not enjoy feeling 
> robbed of my productive time.
> 

Right, I'm unaware of productivity. Until now I gratefully came away with
just learning for learning's sake.

> Not knowing that instantiating a form As FormWhatever overrides the 
> default event handler could be a "gotcha" for someone who is not as 
> knowledgeable as you, as Stephen found out.
> 
> And, "As Name" is a feature of the Gambas language implementation. So, 
> in my opinion, the appropriate venue for documenting this behavior would 
> not be in a GambasMag article.
> 
> But, whatever. I was just looking to try to make things better for others.
> 

I see your point. Are you content with what I wrote[0] into the docs?

Regards,
Tobi

[0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/new

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