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

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 23:51:27 you wrote:
> isinited should be false initially.  It is set right before calling  
> init and sending oninit, because it is used internally to prevent  
> init being called more than once.
OK.

> Maybe a better thing would be to create your own flag to silence the  
> handlers and set that flag to true when you get the oninit event?
That was my initial solution, however I found an instance where that doesn't 
work. If your views are being replicated, you have an initial instance before 
the data comes through (the data coming from the server, so well after the 
application has started). That instance has it's oninit method called, and 
then some time later the data is bound. Hmm, does ondata fire before or after 
the attributes are bound? If after, that would be the solution. (my wish is 
for finer-grained events for things like this. I'd love to have an event that 
says something like 'you are about to be deleted because your datapath node 
has gone', currently I'm manually doing that so I can register the deletion 
on the server).

> Good advice for any project.  The title of one of the chapters in  
> Fred Brooks's "Mythical Man Month" is "Plan to throw one away (you  
> will anyway)".
I have yet to read that. I really should pick it up some time.

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