RE: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In

[Curt Hibbs]

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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