4 Oct
2005
4 Oct
'05
8:03 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:41:42PM -0500, Ben Loftis wrote:
The whole point about Paul's scheme is that he *is* doing exactly that.
And while does seem odd, I will not dismiss the idea without giving it
a full-length meditation :-)
Interesting.
I'll have to go through some mental exercise to convince
myself that this will never cause infinite cycles.
The controllers should not send a change back to the M when they are told by
the M what their value is. You'll also want some logic in the M that says
"if I receive a change that
tells me to go to my current value, then don't send updates to anyone".
This should be a rare occurence, so I wonder if it's worth the extra code.
What could be important when the client is a GUI is to limit the number of
updates. Dragging a slider could result in *a lot of* X move events, and it's
probably unwise to try and update the model and all clients for each one.
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FA