Add advice on best practices for handling event propagation#23728
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Add advice on best practices for handling event propagation#23728alice-i-cecile merged 2 commits intobevyengine:mainfrom
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One more nuance: if a handler, handling an event, wants to trigger additional behaviors further up the hierarchy, the best practice is to define a new event type for this, rather than re-using the event. |
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This means that in a complex, multi-layered hierarchy comprised of nested, reusable modules, the events will evolve and transmute as they travel upwards, starting out as low-level machine signals (like "key press") and eventually becoming high-level, semantic, meaning-laden events such as "save document" or "pause animation". |
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Objective
@viridia mentioned this advice off-hand.
It was good advice (and used in our UI crates), but was never written down.
Solution
Write down and cross-link the advice.