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Editing event definition bug?

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Subject: Editing event definition bug?
From: Karen <keatk at comcast dot net>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:18:10 -0500
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I just found something with the new IDE (that i THINk was not the case with the old) that is a real pain.

I created a new event with a parameter, but mistyped the name of the parameter type. As it was off only by one letter on the end i did not notice it (graphic vs graphics) so i kept coding away merrily...

In a subclass I put code into that event. When I tried to compile I got an error on the parameter type as an unknown class.

OK so i go back to the parent class (actually two levels up) and fixed the parameter declaration expecting that to fix the problem and complied again... and low and behold I get the same error!

It turns out that the change will not be propagated down to events in the subclasses unless they do not contain any code! So I had to delete the code then re-paste it in to get the event definition to update.

That can be a royal pain in cases like this or when later on you decide to add additional parameters to an event (which I tend to do and that does NOT break existing code)

I don't recall having this problem in the old IDE... Bug or feature request?

- karen
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