[Gnucash-changes] r13352 - gnucash/trunk - Fix "default limit" QOF eventing stuff; thanks Andi.

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 26 February 2006 4:31 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Events should always be a power of 2.  This way bitmasking events
> works quickly and efficiently.  It does, however, limit the number
> of events you can have.

It's still going to be more than we had under gnc-event.
:-)

It should be plenty, after all, the new event structure may only be required 
during libqof1.

> One suggestion I had was to do something like:
>
>    #define QOF_MAKE_EVENT(x)    (1<<x)
>
> Then you can do:
>
>   #define QOF_EVENT_A  QOF_MAKE_EVENT(0)
>   #define QOF_EVENT_B  QOF_MAKE_EVENT(1)
>   ...
>
> and then in the API code:
>
>   #define APP_EVENT_A QOF_MAKE_EVENT(QOF_EVENT_BASE+0)
>   #define APP_EVENT_B QOF_MAKE_EVENT(QOF_EVENT_BASE+1)

I can test that for 0.6.2 if you'd like.

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