[SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:17, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> > Unless there will ever be a need to ask a page whether
> > it would take activation in the future, but not activate it immediately,
> > even if it is possible to do so, I think the 2 calls should be merged. Will
> > there ever be such a case?
> 
> I cannot think of one.  It exists soley to give OnActivate a "default return
> code".  It *can't* be called anywhere else, since in the general case,
> OnAcceptActivation won't know if it needs to refuse activation until after
> OnAccept is called.

Hmm. My intention when I suggested a query method was for it to be
called *instead* of OnActivate, and OnActivate only called if it
returned true.

Will doing that break anything?

For clarity:
if (OnAcceptActivate())
  OnActivate()

Rob
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