Hi all, Sukolsak has been implementing the Undo Manager API in WebKit but the fact undoManager.transact() takes a pure JS object with callback functions is making it very challenging. The problem is that this object needs to be kept alive by either JS reference or DOM but doesn't have a backing C++ object. Also, as far as we've looked, there are no other specification that uses the same mechanism. Since I want to make the API consistent with the rest of the platform and the implementation maintainable in WebKit, I propose the following changes: - Re-introduce DOMTransaction interface so that scripts can instantiate new DOMTransaction(). - Introduce AutomaticDOMTransaction that inherits from DOMTransaction and has a constructor that takes two arguments: a function and an optional label After this change, authors can write: scope.undoManager.transact(new AutomaticDOMTransaction{function () { scope.appendChild("foo"); }, 'append "foo"')); instead of: scope.undoManager.transact({executeAutomatic: function () { scope.appendChild("foo"); }, label: 'append "foo"'}); And document.undoManager.transact(new DOMTransaction({function () { // Draw a line on canvas }, function () { // Undraw a line }, function () { this.execute(); }, 'Draw a line' })); instead of: document.undoManager.transact({ execute: function () { // Draw a line on canvas }, undo: function () { // Undraw a line }, redo: function () { this.execute(); }, label: 'Draw a line' }); Best, Ryosuke Niwa Software Engineer Google Inc.Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:39:10 GMT
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