Re: Should delta raise exception when not available?

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 22.12.2010 13:32, schrieb Banlu Kemiyatorn:
> 2010/12/22 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>:
>> Sorry Banlu,
>>
>> I missed this second mail. This explains my stupid question.
>> I had a short look at the Apple documentation and you are right, it
>> doesn't state what happens when this method is called on the wrong event
>> type. Most likely we jst extrapolated the behaviour from the other
>> methods on NSEvent. The better way to find out is of course to write a
>> short test program on Cocoa and implement the same behaviour.
>> I will do that and add this to our test suite.
>>
>> Fred
> 
> Hi Fred,
> That should be me, I sent the second mail coz DrNHS bugged me my first
> question was lacking of info.
> 
> AFAICT it didn't happen in Cocoa since I have the problem only when
> porting an app I released called Helicropper from a working OSX
> version. But even if it does, I hardly see why someone would expect a
> delta to raise an exception than giving a zero.  If they are catching
> stray events they probably should check for event type.
> 
> BAnlu

Done, I will provide the promised test case later one. Tests on Cocoa
showed that your proposal is correct.

Fred