app.status

From: Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor-at-bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:55:08 +0100 (BST)


Mike,

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:

>>> app.status str status string
>>
>> what is the use case for this one? Is there supposed to be a list
>> of known statuses?
>
> No specific use case other than a general way to issue a status
> string. These might be used for debugging or logging, to broadcast
> a loading/busy/done message, ......

It sounds like your intention here is for an MType which allows a sender to inform recipients about its own status. If so, wouldn't this be better named app.event.status? app.status sounds to me more like it would be something a sender uses to enquire the status of a recipient.

Mark

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Received on 2008-06-11Z11:58:59