From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-07-25T01:48:36+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI's and the Rouge, Part III (yes, finally) 1/2

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:25 pm, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> let me paint a picture:
>
> you have this super application you wrote --the underbelly of an
> factastic hoogy-me-whatsy-do-it-all app and now you have to figure out
> how to put a front-end on her. 

I have never written such a program, that is, an "application" that I decided, 
after the fact, that I need a GUI for.  The nearest to that, that I can 
remember, is the mainframe batch programs I wrote in the '60s and '70s. User 
interface was limited to printing reports and keypunching input data.

I cannot imagine a GUI app where the GUI is an "addon".  All of my GUI apps 
were GUI-centric.  I design the GUI first.  Most often my GUI apps are 
nothing but widgets with callbacks:  existing data is presented to the user 
and then the user drives the process.

What drives your application? data, user events, realtime events, what?

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> as for plain old Model-View-Controller, honestly, i have no idea what
> that even means. 

Ah hah!  I think I know what the problem is now.

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