15 Sep
2005
15 Sep
'05
6:25 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:13:15 +0200
Alfons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen(a)alcatel.be> wrote:
When thinking MVC, you do just the opposite: when you
touch something
on the GUI, all it does is send a event ('user has clicked on button
#123') to the 'model' part. This does the thinking, takes actions, and
may send a command back to the GUI ('set the state of button #123 to
RED'). The GUI has become just a dumb translation between commands or
events and visual objects.
The model shouldn't know about which buttons etc exist in the GUI and how to display
things, so the event should be more like ('user wants to perform action #123') and
the response should be more like ('the model state changed to RED') IMO.
About the original question, maybe it would be a good idea to integrate with or at least
support the ATK library that's part of GTK/GNOME? It allows you to
"announce" your widgets and accept input in a generic way from input devices...
/Magnus