Re: [Cxxgui-devel] Design / lists / MVC

[David T. <dkt...@te...>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:39, Daniel James wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 11:46, David Turner wrote:
> > I dislike having to work explicitly through the model if the view is to be
> > updated.
> 
> I don't think it's practical to use STL algorithms in this way. They
> mainly work by assignment, which doesn't map very well to gui
> operations. Also, it's hard to see how you would link items in the list
> view with items in the model, since iterators are easily invalidated. It
> will be very difficult to keep the model and view in sync.

Yes; I agree.  I've decided that the challenges are such that this is
best dealt with In Another Library (tm).

Regards
David Turner