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mickle YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	controlP5, what causes event? Oct 12^th, 2009, 3:12am I'm using controlP5, and in my event handler I need to be able to tell if an event was triggered by the user interacting with the GUI, or by some other code in the program doing a .setValue() call on a controller. Is there a way to do this?? thanks!

mickle YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: controlP5, what causes event? Reply #1 - Oct 12^th, 2009, 3:59am ah, well after reading many messages, I found I can use the undocumented .setBroadcast() function to enable/disable setValue from triggering an event. controlP5 is a very nice library, but too bad the documentation is so poor and incomplete.

0p0

Re: controlP5, what causes event?
Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2009, 1:40pm

mickle wrote on Oct 12^th, 2009, 3:59am:

controlP5 is a very nice library, but too bad the documentation is so poor and incomplete.

this prety much happens with all libraries, developers should spend more time writing documentation, some of us cannot spend hours looking to source code or poorly explained javadoc stuff...

PhiLho

Re: controlP5, what causes event?
Reply #3 - Oct 21^st, 2009, 12:15am

Quote:

some of us cannot spend hours looking to source code or poorly explained javadoc stuff...

While I don't disagree with the fact that good doc and examples are useful, remember that library authors have limited time too (and probably not much taste for writing, but that's another thing).
I guess that most libraries are born out of a particular need for the author and they kindly had the idea to share it with the rest of the world, for free.
Sometime they come with full service (good JavaDoc, lot of examples), sometime they are kind of naked...
Somehow, most libraries are open source, so in the spirit of OSS, people first suffering with a library should contribute some information about it...

Apparently this site will have a nice new Wiki section, I think it will be a good place to share such information.

« Last Edit: Oct 21^st, 2009, 1:36pm by PhiLho »

toxi

Re: controlP5, what causes event?
Reply #4 - Oct 21^st, 2009, 2:55pm

0p0 wrote on Oct 20^th, 2009, 1:40pm:

this prety much happens with all libraries, developers should spend more time writing documentation, some of us cannot spend hours looking to source code or poorly explained javadoc stuff...

Sorry to jump in on this (PhiLho just mentioned this thread elsewhere) - but the above quote is pretty much the most thankless attitude one can have towards open source culture. Only because people are putting out stuff in the open in the help for others to potentially benefit from, doesn't oblige them to provide extensive handholding too. Don't confuse open source with a charity. If you can't spend hours trying to understand it, just don't use it and adopt a tool which comes with better documentation instead. Most of us don't work fulltime on our libraries, yet still try to be as helpful as we can. But really, more than often there're other pressing things to be solved. The whole point open sourcing is to spread the load of creation, testing, debugging, documenting etc. over many minds. Open source is about participation, not consume!

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Cedric

Re: controlP5, what causes event?
Reply #5 - Oct 21^st, 2009, 3:29pm

I absolutely have to agree with Toxi and PhiLho, although I wish to have a better documentation with some libraries I use. I am really thankful for every library people offer cause other then you argue, they save everybody of us so much time and offer alot of new possibilities. Just think about writing your own physic librarie for example and you will realize it.

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0p0

Re: controlP5, what causes event?
Reply #6 - Oct 21^st, 2009, 6:15pm

toxi wrote on Oct 21^st, 2009, 2:55pm:

Sorry to jump in on this (PhiLho just mentioned this thread elsewhere) - but the above quote is pretty much the most thankless attitude one can have towards open source culture. Only because people are putting out stuff in the open in the help for others to potentially benefit from, doesn't oblige them to provide extensive handholding too.

It's not about being thankless, I did'nt mean it that way, and I am sorry if it seems like that, I do am really thankful for every lib I use and the rest that is out there, making our lives much easier, my point is that putting a couple semi-detailed doc comments is not that hard and time consumming, because most of us are not pro developers who understand OOP or Java out of the box, many of us are just beginning in this world and examples and detailed documentation are the best way to teach us.

Again, my apologies if my first response looks like one from a spoiled kid.

@PhiLho:
Wiki on the site AWESOME! that would just solve a lot Cheesy

peace!