[Laszlo-user] When is 'isinit' set?

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 22:51:14 P T Withington wrote:
> Note that in 4.x, handlers on the instance being constructed that  
> would be triggered due to setting initial values into the instance  
> are deferred until _all_ the initial values are set -- so the  
> handlers will not see a partially constructed instance.
I'm using 3.3 (I tried writing the app for 4, but there was a bug I couldn't 
figure out (I think to do with the stretch attribute on view), and I'm under 
a time constraint. When I get this app finished and working in 3.3, I'll go 
back and try to reproduce it)

My issue is that I have handlers set that report back to the server when 
certain attributes change, and of course on initialisation, there is a flurry 
of events that I want to ignore (being the initial data setting). I was 
hoping that it would always be the case that attributes would be set, then 
isinited set, or at least that my oninit handler would be called, however it 
seems that neither of those are reliable. My current, very ugly, workaround 
is to simply count the number of events: if there are 4 attributes, ignore 
the first 4 events. Not nice, but it means that it works.

(I have learnt an important lesson though, when writing your first significant 
Laszlo app, keep working until it becomes unmaintainable, and then start 
again using all the knowledge you picked up the first time around - my new 
one is about 2/3rds the size, faster, much more maintainable, has more 
features, and has taken me about three weeks (compared to a couple of months 
the first time around) :)
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