fibaroExtra
Here is a Lua file that can be added to any QuickApp and that provides missed functions, improvements, and nice-to-have add-ons.
(It's functions that I have factored out from my QuickerApp framework).
It's backward compatible with the standard way to code a QA, so fibaroExtra functions can be introduced as needed in your code. Without using anything from fibaroExtra you get better error handling for setTimeout and json calls and some other beneath-the-surface enhancements (I thought a
The Please login or register to see this link. talked about the event system in fibaroExtra and can be good to revisit to understand what events are.
We could send events to other QAs by using
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and the other QA could have a handler to receive the event and print out the greeting.
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The drawback is that the sender needs to know the ID of the receiving QA. We can make it a bit easier by looking up the QA by n
