On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, I. Savant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Wickl thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I know how MVC works with one Model, one View and
>>> one Controller but I really donĀ“t understnd how the controllers of different
>>> Views communicate with each other.
>
>> Through the model. The controllers of different views do not generally
>> communicate directly.
>
> That's a pretty general blanket statement that is most certainly
> not always the case.
>
> Consider (as a very basic example) a master/detail view (without the
> use of Bindings, especially). Sure there're plenty of reasons I can
> think of to have multiple controllers (one for the master list and one
> for the detail view), but for every reason I can think of to
> separate the controllers in this scenario, I can think of one that
> strongly suggests keeping them as one.

I agree, so I'm not sure why you're using this as a counter-example to
what I said!

I also said "generally", with just such an exception being
master-detail views complex enough to require separate controllers :)
I guess there are plenty of those around, though...

Hamish

P.S. Trimming attribution when you quote me makes it complicated for
people reading Cocoa-dev to follow, as my posts to the list are
moderated and do not appear straight away.
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