[Dynapi-Dev] Some proposals

[Pascal B. <pa...@dy...>]

Here are  some ideas  I've been thinking about (based on other peoples
code/input)

first:  Renaming all files, currently we use  core.xxx.yyy.
I originally created this not to use sub-folders like this, but to show the
differences between certain objects..  xxx  would be the object group and
yyy would be the name of the object/class/extension.

The first thing to change would be to replace core with dynapi,  core was
the original name of my own distribution but when my version was copied over
to the original dis. the naming was left this way.. I think this should be
dynapi.xxx.yyy

As example, the webos.com files use the same naming scheme (example:
webos.ui.component)
(they probably copied it from us ;-)  So we should really rename all the
files to dynapi.xxx.yyy

second:  A change in the widgets, to start using eventlisteners and not
hard-coded methods (I think
Robert just posted a message mentioning this as well)  If you look at the
loadpanel from Dan, you'll
see how this can be achieved, all code and events are handled in the widget
constructor, making only
methods and properties available thru prototyping, not the create code..
example:

function myWidget() {
    this.DynLayer=DynLayer    // or other object for sub-class inheriting
    this.DynLayer()

   var listener=new EventListener(this)
   listener.oncreate=function(e) {        // this used to be the
myWidget.prototype.onCreate=function() part
        // do all stuf to initialise your widget.
        // this is actually all the code you would normally put in the
onCreate function of your widget
   }
   this.addEventListener(listener)

   return this
}
myWidget.prototype=new DynLayer()
myWidget.prototype.methodnames=function() {
}


This way we can completely start using eventlisteners, which makes
everything work in the
same logicall way... this would require the simple changes to the
createElement() I posted yesterday
with the loadPanel() widget.

I'm planning on converting all my own widgets to this format, because I
think it makes the widget model
slightly better (having all create code in the widget constructor) while
still keeping the simplicity in it.


Comments please :-)

      Pascal Bestebroer
      pa...@dy...
      http://www.dynamic-core.net