Re: Is this a bug I see before my eyes?

No one is banning you from how the OnIdle works. Override it.

The software has made a positive moved foreword. MFC is no more infallible
than anything a human has created. If you don't like it, spin off your own
open source version, welcome to the world of open source.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Rob Marsden <rob-uNoPq/[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Nenad,
>
> > Well, I still remember why I wrote it that way :-)
> I'm please about that. I seldom can these days.
>
>
> > Form the experience with MFC - people would too much stuff in OnIdle and
> > spin it too often, which would result in sluggish apps. Default
> > implementation in WTL doesn't allow idle processing to continue to
> prevent
> > that. If you want to be able to continue idle processing, you can create
> > your own Module class, and override OnIdle with implementation which
> takes
> > return value into account.
> >
> I can see the reasoning behind that, but was it justified in the light
> of the WTL interface being so close to MFC? I wouldn't want to make a
> big issue out of this, as the WTL is such a well respected component of
> the Windows/C++ environment.
>
> As more of an aside---it just seems odd that the decision of how
> to use the OnIdle facility should be moved away from the application
> developer, to the tool (yes I know the developer can subvert that
> decision). It's almost as if you didn't trust the developers as a body.
>
> We used to have a government that didn't like the way a tiny minority
> might risk harming themselves, doing some particular activity, so they
> tried to make it difficult for the whole electorate to do that activity,
> or even banned it. They got kicked out at the last election. :-)
>
> Thanks to your efforts, WTL is too valuable a tool to let that happen.
> 'Nuff said!
>
>
> --
> Rob Marsden
> Gistix (Northern) Limited
>
>  
>


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