[Arp] Re: Arp Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

[Tim Lucas]

Mike and others,

When replying to the digest of the mailing list, please set your 
subject line to the same as the original thread... otherwise we have no 
idea which post you are referring to.

Cheers,
Tim

On 08/01/2005, at 8:06 AM, Mike Britton wrote:

>> how does the View observe the Model. Simply: It cannot unless
>> you have some sort of socket connection which is clearly infeasible
>
> In my MVC forays I'm using GDispatcher in my Controller to map Model
> events to View methods, and vice-versa.  Usually this is in the
> context of a component, so I use the main UIObject extension as my
> Application, then instantiate my Application Controller and pass it a
> reference.  My Application Controller instantiates my Model and View,
> and links their functionality with GDispatcher.
>
> I don't like it.  The MM framework is slow, and I have problems with
> live preview and LocalConnection.  However, the classes are decoupled
> enough to stay tight for the fifteen minutes it takes to make this
> design fail :)
>
> Mike