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Apr 21 03:33:05 <Trex005> Is there a "enyo is a descendant of" function in enyo?
Apr 21 03:33:05 <Trex005> I'm specifically having a problem with the tree control.  If I have an object selected and then click an object above that one, the object I just clicked collapses, when really I just want it to become selected.
Apr 21 12:48:45 <madnificent> Trex005: not sure if i'd know the answer, but i'm fairly certain i don't understand the question
Apr 22 00:20:54 <GodGinrai> Hey guys, I remember reading somewhere that it was advised against to use Arrays and Objects as published properties of an enyo kind because the changed function couldn't tell the difference between them
Apr 22 00:21:17 <GodGinrai> so what would be the "correct" way in Enyo to use an array?
Apr 22 00:21:23 <GodGinrai> in the kind
Apr 22 00:21:26 <GodGinrai> that is user-definable
Apr 22 00:21:53 <GodGinrai> I need to have one for a combobpx that I am building
Apr 22 00:22:52 <GodGinrai> highlighting: sugardave rrix LarrySteeze madnificent fxspec06 cryptk dkirker Trex005
Apr 22 00:23:06 <GodGinrai> oh, and summatusmentis
Apr 22 00:38:30 <summatusmentis> I'm not sure I understand what you'rea sking
Apr 22 00:50:26 <GodGinrai> Ok
Apr 22 00:50:47 <GodGinrai> So have you ever heard of Chosen, the jquery/prototype plugin?
Apr 22 00:52:42 <GodGinrai> http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/
Apr 22 00:52:49 <GodGinrai> Look at the multiple select examples
Apr 22 00:53:01 <GodGinrai> I'm trying to make something like that for enyo
Apr 22 00:53:31 <GodGinrai> however, I'll need to pass a list of choices that the user can choose from to the element for it to search and populate them
Apr 22 00:53:40 <GodGinrai> which would mean that I would need an array
Apr 22 01:07:07 <summatusmentis> I have heard of chosen, yes
Apr 22 01:09:23 <summatusmentis> so, the thing you remember reading is at https://github.com/enyojs/enyo/wiki/Published-Properties
Apr 22 01:09:26 <summatusmentis> at the bottom
Apr 22 01:09:36 <summatusmentis> I think
Apr 22 01:09:49 <GodGinrai> yes
Apr 22 01:10:46 <summatusmentis> I see 2 ways of dealing with this: 1) do what that suggests, and use .clone(), and just know that it'll call propertyChanged() even if the value doesn't change
Apr 22 01:11:08 <summatusmentis> or 2) give it a string delimited by a character you don't expect to see, and split() when you need to actually handle it
Apr 22 01:22:15 <GodGinrai> Those are both solutions, however, the first option has obvious problems, and the second option is not very friendly for anyone who would try to use my Combobox in their own apps
Apr 22 01:23:41 <summatusmentis> it's not clear that 1 has obvious problems
Apr 22 01:23:47 <summatusmentis> there's a little bit of extra work
Apr 22 01:24:10 <summatusmentis> I agree that 2 isn't super generalizable
Apr 22 01:25:19 <summatusmentis> propertyChanged being triggered twice may not be that big of a deal
Apr 22 01:44:45 <GodGinrai> It's not that propertyChanged will be called twice, but that it will be called every time you use the setter
Apr 22 02:10:27 <summatusmentis> yes, true enough
Apr 22 02:10:34 <summatusmentis> do you expect the setter to be called a lot?
Apr 22 02:16:13 <GodGinrai> Not for my current purposes, but I could see cases where it could in other projects
Apr 22 02:21:01 <summatusmentis> I don't see other options, I suppose you could figure out a way to have multiple properties, where you specify length, and individual properties for the length
Apr 22 02:21:08 <summatusmentis> or rather, for each item
Apr 22 02:21:17 <summatusmentis> but that's unwieldy, and I don't know how it handles changes
Apr 22 02:21:30 <GodGinrai> :\
Apr 22 02:21:56 <summatusmentis> hwere does propertyChanged trigger?
Apr 22 02:23:00 <GodGinrai> my guess is that during the autogeneration of setters, it adds a check that triggers propertyChanged if they are not equal
Apr 22 02:23:20 <summatusmentis> that's probably true
Apr 22 02:24:13 <summatusmentis> I mean, programmatically, the right way would be to compare the arrays manually, and then trigger propertyChanged
Apr 22 02:24:17 <summatusmentis> if they differ
Apr 22 02:25:16 <summatusmentis> but I don't know if there's a way to override the underlying stuff
Apr 22 02:34:33 <GodGinrai> since we can pass functions in Javascript similar to how you can in C, why didn't they add in support for users to define a compare function for their properties, I wonder?
Apr 22 02:35:08 <GodGinrai> or even so, because of inheritance, we wouldn't even have needed to "pass" such a function
Apr 22 02:35:11 <GodGinrai> just override it
Apr 22 02:35:17 <GodGinrai> or look for it
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