Re: [Jscheme-user] hack-of-the-day: swing-action

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

Sounds great Ken.  I wonder if this bit could be automated:

--- scm/MouseInputAdapter.java ---
package scm;
public class MouseInputAdapter extends 
javax.swing.event.MouseInputAdapter {
}
---

Geoffrey
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Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk

On Aug 16, 2004, at 17:27, Ken Anderson wrote:

> There are several concerns you must deal with when developing a Java 
> GUI:
> - layout - where components go.
> - action - what happens when you click on something.
> - model - what happens to the underlying data "model" when an action 
> happens.
> - update - what happens to the gui when an action happens.
> - enable - which actions are currently enabled.
>
> I've enclosed a slice of code that i'm using in an application tries 
> to separate these concerns:
> - layout is delarative, like XUL http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/ it 
> could be in xml.
> Layout show relative position of components and associates a named 
> action and enabling state with each component. Any action occurs in 
> its own thread.
> - model - the model is a simple prototype object which includes named 
> components of the GUI.
> - update - Any update occurs in an invokeLater
>
> One way this differs from the Mode-View-Controller pattern is that i'm 
> using a single update procedure.  So i need to think about that more 
> ...
> k
>
> [The attachment swing-action.scm has been manually removed]
>