Re: Fix to ensure whiteboards update

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 11:30 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> However, I'm not sure why this is happening for you. The way its meant
> to work is something like (with ordering like in your log):
> 
> 1) pollForChange() -> discussion changed
> 2) dump the discussion -> notice the new whiteboard object
> 3) call getPollUrl() (without the new whiteboard object)
> 4) we do stuff with the new whiteboard object in javascript
> 5) After that we call registerObject() on the new whiteboard js object
>    However, topic.js has set a registration hook:
>     // We need to update the poll list after any new object has been created
>     objectRegistry.addHook(function (obj) { theYarrr.updatePoll() })
> 6) updatePoll() cancels the outstanding poll, regets the set of
> interesting objects, and then restarts the poll.
> 
> For some reason, step 6 doesn't seem to happen for you. We need to
> figure out why.

I tracked down and fixed this. It was a race when updatePoll() happened
at the wrong time in the state-machine.

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