John Spackman

Property Code Generation

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The code generation for properties is complex and obscure, particularly for setXxx methods; the generation is spread across a number of __emitXxx methods in `qx.core.Property` and while each method is...

Use of `defer()` leads to unresolvable dependency

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TL;DR: the `defer` method for classes is being abused and is causing side effects which could potentially cause the generator or qooxdoo-compiler to break unpredictably; this is easily solved by...

In this SO article http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41188199/converter-called-twice-with-list-controller, Adelise demonstrates that binding to `qx.data.controller.List.selection` causes the `converter` to be called twice. This is arguably a bug but being able to add a `changeSelection`...

Auto-dispose for widgets

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Following on from https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo/pull/9375 by @iceteagroup, disposing of widgets manually causes the same problems as having to manually dispose ordinary objects - IMHO it arises less often only because many...

I can't get `useSensor:true` to ever work on the simulator - the `NativeDeviceOrientationCommunicator. orientation` never returns from it's promise and the `onOrientationChanged` stream never fires any events Is this a...

If multiple requests arrive at the same time (eg XHR), then the session data is loaded from the store at the start of each request and then saved; however, this...

Support for Node.js

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I have a large Java server application that I would love to port to NodeJS but it’s just too big to start that project - assuming that I replaced Tomcat...

Image clipping and combining support

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We need support for image clipping and combining in the ResourceManager, to support the functionality here: http://www.qooxdoo.org/5.0.1/pages/development/image_clipping_and_combining.html

Support asset mapping

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The generator supported `asset-let`, which was a way of mapping assets at runtime; this is not implemented, but should be - and should include support for mapping to icon fonts

Script to create a qooxdoo.d.ts and publish to DefinitelyTyped

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If we publish a qooxdoo.d.ts to https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped it will be picked up automatically by IDEs (eg Visual Code); there will still be a place for the target output because contribs...