[Adobe-source-devel] Adding new (object-like) types to Adam

[Ralph T. <ra...@gm...>]

Hi there,

  I (think that I) want to add a new type to Adam. My program is MVC
based, and the model is always instanciated from a string (a URL or
serialized model). I understand that I could define a sheet like:

sheet my_model {
  interface:
    name : "";
    mime_type: "";
    parent : ""; // will be the model's parent's serialized string
...
};

and then bind widgets to @name or @mime_type (and write the glue code
to hookup name, mime_type and parent to the model). What I'd really
like to do is more like:

sheet my_sheet {
  interface:
    my_model : "serialized-model-string";
};

and then bind widgets to @my_model.name or @my_model.mime_type. And
perhaps even change the model string when a button is pressed (e.g.:
make my_model = my_model.parent).

Is this within the scope of Adam? It's not really important that
my_model be a string and something else, it could just as easily be a
special sheet (which my code can recognize and glue to a model
factory).

Best regards,
 Ralph