[Chandler-dev] When to use proxied items vs unproxied items?

[Grant Baillie]

On 6 Mar, 2007, at 08:15, Reid Ellis wrote:

> These are modelled on the numerous other event-handling methods in  
> the FocusEventHandlers class. My (hopefully simple) question is:  
> why do we use __getProxiedSelectedItems() for event handlers (which  
> ends up calling Block.getProxiedItem()), but __getSelectedItems()  
> (which does not call that function) for the UpdateUI methods?  
> Shouldn't they both be using the proxy version?

If you're just getting attributes of an item for UI updates, you  
probably don't need the proxy. [The only time the proxy makes a  
difference for getters is while the recurrence dialog is showing.  
Then, in most cases, it allows the UI to show items as they will  
appear if you go ahead with the change.]

If you're setting item attributes, you should use the proxy because  
that will record edit/update changes, and also show the recurrence  
dialog where appropriate.

--Grant