Re: [PW-dev] Widget factory

[Jay L. <Ja...@La...>]

I've gotta claim ignorance on what you guys are talking about when you're
refering to factories and controllers.

Personally - I expected that I'd instanciate what ever widgets I the app
developer wanted, fill their properties at instanciation or afterwards, and
then call their methods when  I needed something from them.

I guess the purpose of having a controller or factory is to aid in this
process? Possibly provide other services? Maybe I am thinking that
controller code is slightly beyond scope of widgets.

Perhaps more detail on what you guys see happening here would be of value
not just to me but us all.

Jay

From: "James G Smith" <JG...@TA...>
> Stephen Adkins <ste...@of...> wrote:
> >At 01:43 PM 6/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Many of the examples have Widget -> method() for making a widget.  I
don't
> >>think this is as good an idea as creating an instance of a factory class
and
> >>using that to create widgets.
> >
> >Can you clarify what examples you are talking about?
>
> Jay has some that I am aware of:
>
> > $widget=Widget->new( thaw => $stored_data );
>
> for example.  I think others have used a similar approach at times.  I'm
> seeing more of the $wc->widget than Widget->new :/  I didn't do an
exhaustive
> search for examples, so I might have missed some, esp. from earlier.
>
> >There are no globals in the code.
> >Perhaps you mean static methods in the Widget package?
> >(This doesn't suffer from any threading problems I am aware of.)
>
> Hmm...  Not sure what the static methods get us then if we can't configure
> them any.  Any configuration of the static methods would involve globals.
>
> I've seen both static and non-static approaches to this in the email.
Static
> methods will come back to bite us, imho, because of either the lack in
> configurability or the presence of global information.
>
> >James, you're giving good input and obviously putting some good thought
into
> >the topic.
> >I just don't know what you're talking about in this email.
>
> Well, I've seen us be inconsistant as a group, so I wanted to make sure
> everyone was on the same page.
> --
> James Smith <JG...@TA...>, 979-862-3725
> Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix
>
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