[Laszlo-dev] [Laszlo-user] API enhancement proposal for <handler>

[P T Withington]

Good point, Norm.  Thanks for the feedback.

Clearly I need to think about this API more, because as you point out, what I have so far is too confusing.

I'm open to better suggestions!

On 2010-02-17, at 14:54, Norman Klein wrote:

> I think this API is attempting to have things both ways and as a
> result, its confusing. The attributes need to work in a single manner.
> According to this email, the 'name' attribute operates in different
> ways depending on the presence of the 'event' attribute. This allows
> confusing situations like this to occur:
> 
> <handler name="oninit" event="null">
>   ...
> </handler>
> <handler name="oninit">
>  ...
> </handler>
> 
> According to the API, this confusing mess would be legal as the first
> handler only has the name "oninit", while the second handler only
> handles "oninit" events and doesn't have a name, so there's no name
> conflict.
>