[Dev] reloading the soup?

[John Anderson]

Alec Flett wrote:

> I talked with Bryan, Andi, and John -
> - john says that the "reload parcels" crash is due to a bug with jed's 
> minicalendar - but that it would be nice to reload without quitting.

I'll try to add "deleting the blocks in the soup" (with a fix for your 
child block bug described below) to reload parcels, and check in a 
workaround for jed's bug

> - even if we were to reload the parcels, we'd still need to blow away 
> the soup. That would require tearing down and rebuilding the wx widget 
> tree. yuck.

Actually, tearing down and rebuilding the wxWidget tree is only two lines:
wx.GetApp().UnRenderMainView ()
wx.GetApp().RenderMainView ()

> - I agree that it would be nice to add the ability to reload without 
> quitting, but it was a whole lot less work to just add a command line 
> option that blows away the soup.
>
> I filed a bug for this, and attached a patch. if you'd like to review 
> it, check out:
> http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2394

It looks like your patch only deletes the topmost block of the tree, but 
not all the children blocks, which become garbage that is never cleaned up.

I also added the CPIA Viewer I mentioned earlier, that lets you 
conveniently view the block hiearchy in the soup. I'll check it in after 
I add delete to block reloading.

>
> I'll check this in later today if that's ok with everyone
>
> Alec
>
> Alec Flett wrote:
>
>> I've been hacking some parcel.xml's to change some UI, and even 
>> though the repository seems to notice the changes I make every time I 
>> start up, the UI isn't actually updating. I'm assuming this is 
>> because items were originally copied into the soup, and even though 
>> the original items in the repository have been changed to match my 
>> parcel.xml, the soup remains as it is.
>>
>> So I've been trying to figure out if there is a way to "reload the 
>> soup"... i.e. blow away the existing soup and force a new soup to be 
>> created.
>>
>> Any ideas? Is there maybe some command line flag that could do this 
>> for me that I'm missing?
>>
>> Alec
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