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RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:17, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> 
>>> Unless there will ever be a need to ask a page whether
>>> it would take activation in the future, but not activate it
>>> immediately, even if it is possible to do so, I think the 2 calls
>>> should be merged. Will there ever be such a case?
>> 
>> I cannot think of one.  It exists soley to give OnActivate a
>> "default return code".  It *can't* be called anywhere else, since in
>> the general case, OnAcceptActivation won't know if it needs to
>> refuse activation until after OnAccept is called.
> 
> Hmm. My intention when I suggested a query method was for it to be
> called *instead* of OnActivate, and OnActivate only called if it
> returned true. 
> 
> Will doing that break anything?
> 
> For clarity:
> if (OnAcceptActivate())
>   OnActivate()

Hi guys :)

Would...

if (canActivate())
	OnActivate()

be better? (although the OnXXX functions always make me think that
they should be callbacks.)

J.


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