app.status

[Mark Taylor]

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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