Dear qooxdoo,
I wrote a very complicated application based on qooxdoo a few years ago. It
still works great but there are some kinks that I was trying to work out. I
spent 13 hours over the past week trying to get 50 lines of code to work. 8 of
that was trying to debug a problem with appearance and the magical fact you
have to tell some things what they should look like in some circumstances, but
not in others. No errors or warnings to assist either.
Then, I ran into a weird bug with selection that I cannot reproduce with any
shorter code, and spent 6 hours writing no new code and simply trying to figure
out where the hell selection is converted to actual highlighting in
qx.ui.list.List
As of right now, I have erased all the work and thrown in the towel. I have
not had this much frustration and impossibility of solving a banal issue since
I worked with Microsoft Access in 2000.
There has got to be a better way to do things. Too much is magic, the
generated code has no line breaks and can't be stepped through even in source
mode.
I have literally run out of all of my available time allotted for this project,
and we have to stick with the older not-quite-working code as a result.
If any of you have successfully found a time-efficient way to debug problems in
selection or binding or any other qooxdoo black magic, I would appreciate the
tips for the next time I have a block of time to try something. Until then, I
hope my utter failure is a wake up call from a former evangelist of qooxdoo
(one of my blog posts is a top hit in google search for qooxdoo with many
visitors every day).
Thanks,
Greg
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