It sounds like you were using "generate build" - this produces minified code
and you'd normally debug/develop with "generate source" which is entirely
readable. I'm not sure what you were doing wrong but it sounds like there
was one or two fundamental misunderstandings or you were trying to do
something very specialist and unusual because selection in List is usually
trivial to make it work. Can you give us an example of what you were trying
to achieve? Preferably with a playground example (start at [1] and use the
"Shorten URL" button)
[1] http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/playground/#Hello%20World-ria
John
From: Gregory Beaver <[email protected]>
Reply-To: qooxdoo Development <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 29 August 2013 05:04
To: qooxdoo Development <[email protected]>
Subject: [qooxdoo-devel] Frustrating development
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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