Re: Flash Demo

[Helge Hess]

Hi Nicolas,

On Jun 26, 2005, at 15:30, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> I recorded a flash video demonstrating Gorm and the StepTalk palette:
> http://www.xdev.org/gnustep/demo.html

Two comments on the palette:

a) the ScriptButton is really really aweful since it merges view and
   controller - thats almost like Windows programming :-(

b) does the editor in the script inspector really need a save button?
   Thats somehow inconsistent (and it doesn't display any indication
   whether its currently "saved").

Wrt the script button I think the appropriate solution is to support 
associations/bindings (don't know if Gorm already has this). I suppose 
your idea is to avoid the requirement to create a full script object 
for very small code sections.

As a developer you would create a "GSStepTalkAssociation" which 
evaluates a given association string as a StepTalk script.

As the user you would drag a regular button (or any other object) to 
the window. Then go to the "bindings" inspect and the "onclick" 
binding. Select the "GSStepTalkAssociation" as the association type for 
the binding and enter the relevant script in the binding field.

The nice thing with associations is that they can be of any type (KVC, 
scripts, xpath expressions, whatever), not just Outlets or Actions, 
also see:
  http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/software/MCI/

Just a rough idea ;-)

Greets,
  Helge
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