[kepler-dev] Can "stop" interrupt "initialize()"

[Edward A. Lee]

At 12:14 PM 2/1/2006, Kevin Ruland wrote:
>My big question is what changes need to be through a ChangeRequest 
>and if there are any exceptions, e.g. When I'm in an 
>attributeChanged() method, do I need to queue a ChangeRequest?

The safe answer is that anything that changes the structure
of the model should go through a ChangeRequest.

But yes, there are exceptions.  If all the code is well-behaved
(follows the above policy), then some methods (such as attributeChanged())
will be called only from within the _execute() method of a ChangeRequest.
But to know when you can use these exceptions is tricky...  Best
to just use ChangeRequest.

Edward


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