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RE: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In
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Curt Hibbs |
Subject: |
RE: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:40:03 -0700 |
Tom Sawyer wrote:
>
> sorry to see that no one else is "jumping right in"
>
> well, i'll carry on.
Sometimes I can't respond right away, depends on other demands on my time.
> had some thoughts concerning possbile gui design pattern criteria:
>
> 1. the core-application, or model, should not require alteration in any
> way in order to give it a gui interface.
I don't know how viable this will turn out to be in practice, but if it is
possible then that would be fantastic. You could start with auto-bindings,
and later added hints/specifications that would refine the GUI (or not, if
it was a quick & dirty type of app).
> 2. ideally, the gui api allows for bindings on any of the model's
> object's instance variables.
>
> item #2 is a a rather thorny programming problem. as of yet the only
> idea i've come up with is dynamically appending a method call to every
> method of every bound model object. this special method keeps a record
> of each bound object's instance variables. if any have changed since the
> last call and a binding is defined for that instance variable then the
> corrspoding binding action is called.
>
> does that make sense? any better ideas? notions on the best way to
> implement this?
>
>
> ~transami
>
>
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- [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/05
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/05
- RE: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In,
Curt Hibbs <=
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Massimiliano Mirra, 2002/08/07
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/07
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, list, 2002/08/08
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/08
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Massimiliano Mirra, 2002/08/09
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/10
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Kero van Gelder, 2002/08/10
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Tom Sawyer, 2002/08/10
- Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In, Massimiliano Mirra, 2002/08/15