From eac29cb3b9daa3b8dbfdd849c311a441b098b94e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Bayne Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:55:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Small documentation addition. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@3364 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1 --- src/java/com/threerings/presents/package.html | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/package.html b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/package.html index 407fd7716..0aa08dbe1 100644 --- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/package.html +++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/package.html @@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ note are that setter methods for the two attributes were generated and constants were defined that will be used to identify which attribute changed if we choose to inspect an event notifying us of such a - change. + change. Note also that additional methods may be added to a + distributed object class as long as nothing is modified in the + AUTO-GENERATED section. As new fields are added and the + post-processing tool re-run, everything outside the auto-generated + section will be preserved.

One may also notice that attribute change requests result in the new value of the attribute being immediately written to the local copy