Thanks, Tim, glad you like it. I agree one of the most interesting uses for Cells is GUI programming. I'd love to see a library for building Swing GUIs this way, although I would want to keep the GUI functions separate from the cell library itself.
>From the libraries thread, I can see that there are at least two other implementations of Cell-like libraries, so clearly there's a lot of interest in this topic. -Stuart Sierra On Jan 30, 8:53 am, Timothy Pratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > On Jan 30, 1:43 pm, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have put together a another implementation of Cells. > > Cool! > > One of the things I really like about Cells is that it can really take > the pain out of MVC style GUI > building:http://github.com/timothypratley/strive/blob/8285ef1419601411797205de... > should demonstrate better than I can articulate. > To me that's an exciting aspect of cells, but also difficult to cover: > watching-label is quite useful, but people might wish to use a wider > range of controls which would need similar helpers. I'd be interested > in your thoughts on the matter, and whether you think there is scope > to include watching-label and/or similar. > > > The idea is the same as Cells. You create a special variable (an "auto- > > agent") whose value is defined by an expression. Whenever one of the > > other variables (agent, atom, or ref) referenced in the expression > > changes its value, the expression is automatically reevaluated and the > > value of the auto-agent is updated. > > Nice code - very useful. > > Regards, > Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
