From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T23:21:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Managing complexity and untangling my thoughts

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't have the time to look deeper into this ATM.  But one
> thing about your post strikes me as odd: you mention "note.widget".  This
> sounds to me as if the model (note) contains view components (widget).  I
> think usually it's the other way round: the widget knows the model but the
> model doesn't know anything about representation.  So it would rather be
> "note_widget.note" and this would also remove your problem with the title
> synch: "note_widget.title" would look like this "class NoteWidgeg; def
> title() note.title end end" (you probably could use delegation for this).
> 

I'm sure this makes sense. My original code was not written from an MVC
perspective.


Hal