[javascript-dev] js disobeys law of cause and effect

On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:48 AM, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:

> The jit.qball was in there because I felt that events were getting  
> lost between the js and jit.lcd.  Even taking it out, it doesn't  
> appear to work properly.  I'm still a bit fuzzy as to how events  
> that trigger events in other objects could happen after the events  
> that they were supposed to trigger - perhaps there's something  
> about scheduling that I'm missing here?

Well if you take the defer out, you might re-enter the same JS before  
the previous function has completed, which also would give you some  
odd behavior.

> I'm not very optimistic about using 2 js objects to do this - if  
> the events are coming from jit.lcd and an uneven rate, will  
> separating js objects make a difference?

You could if you separate the logic of iterating N times (no  
feedback), querying values to be used by another one, and the actual  
drawing, but perhaps not worth it. Sorry I don't have time to be more  
detailed in my suggestion.

> The reason I'm using jit.lcd instead of pure js is because I need  
> to output to a matrix at some point.  But now that you mention it,  
> I'd forgotten that I could use jsui for this... I can use  
> "tonamedmatrix" to copy the contents of the jsui to a matrix, right?

Yes. This is what I'd use. You can use the Sketch.gettextinfo() to  
get the width and height of the string for your positioning needs.

-Joshua