[Irc4j-developers] Re: Some basic thoughts...

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Maarten Coene wrote:
> There is a very usefull 
> pattern which can be used for this problem: the Observer pattern (also 
> sometimes called: EventManager, EventMechanism, ...). Basically, the Thread 
> you're talking about will throw an event everytime it gets something from 
> the server. Every listener (= an object which is interested in this event) 
> will receive the event and can do something usefull with it (for example: 
> print the text in a JTextArea, write it to a log file, ...)
Yes, that sounds good. I'll take a look at it soon. I thougth about a event-driven listener, too, but I didn't know how to realize it. Maybe this is exactly the solution I wanted. :-)

> I think that in a good design the user interface should be seperated from 
> the core classes (like IrcConnection, IrcChannel, ...). These core channel 
> shouldn't know anything about the user interface classes.
Of course, those 'backend' classes should be seperated from the interface. That's why I skipped my first version of a GUI. It was programmed too bad. ;-) I was thinking about the future (actually, I was dreaming...) and suddenly I recognized, that everyone had to use MY GUI. That doesn't seems right, so I deleted all of it.

Ok, something else now:

The project pages at sourceforge are looking like they could need a maintainer. I've done some work for another project hosted on SF so I'm familiar with the services hosted on sf like MLs, ftp, http. Maybe I can set up this pages? So my sf ID is "schwarzer_peter". I think, my last mail to Maarten with the ID was killed somewhere in my weird system configuration... :-/

As said before, I'm creating some HTML pages with my code (in HTML & pure Java), some UML diagrams and stuff. When I'm done, I'll give you the URL to go over it. Maybe they can be used as a project homepage.

Carsten Ringe

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