Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Separating functionality into modules

[Peter M. <zig...@po...>]

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 12:11 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
> On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 06:13 Europe/Amsterdam, Peter Montagner 
> wrote:
>>>> Another example of a python-specific functionality is a mixin class 
>>>> for a dialog that would automatically keep the dialog items synced 
>>>> with another object (using Pythons introspection to obtain the 
>>>> names of the dialog items, looking them up in the other object. 
>>>> Combined with slots this could even happen completely automatic).
>>>
>>> Not sure I get this one...
>>
>> I think he's talking about doing the standard "Controller" bit of the 
>> MVC paradigm automagically. There is a lot of stuff that a Controller 
>> class does that is done almost every time and is quite tedious to 
>> program. You're not going to be able to eliminate this repetitive 
>> application logic completely but this could help in making PyObjC a 
>> really easy RAD environment. Of course I probably misread his idea.
>
> That's indeed what I was thinking about.

Well, care to elaborate in that case? It sounds very interesting. Have 
you put much thought into it or were you just throwing it out there as 
a possibility. How do you keep everything synced?

Peter