On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Christian Ridderström wrote:
>
> But in brief:
>
> We have tried to implement what is known as a Model-Controller-View split of
> the code in LyX. The LyX core is the Model. It defines everything needed to
> manipulate your document (what LyX calls a 'buffer'). The GUI-independence
> project started life as a desire to move GUI code out of the LyX core. This
> core would issue a series of commands to a 'black box' saying 'Open a
> dialog' or 'draw this Pixmap'. The core itself would have no idea what was
> actually doing the drawing, (or indeed if this drawing took place at all.)
> In turn, the 'black box' would request information from the LyX core to
> complete the task it was expected to perform.
Thanks for the explanation. I did a search for "Model-Controller-View"...
would you say this:
http://cpptips.hyperformix.com/cpptips/mvc
is an accurate description of what you mean? Or perhaps you have another
URI for MVC... sorry MCV (MVC is multi-variable control...)
> The downside has been that it often feels that, till now, only I have
> understood the controller code ;-)
I know what you mean, no excuses necessary... (save them for your own
code that you understand any more :-)
> Personally, I would say that 1550 files and quarter of a million lines of
> source code was too much...
Yikes... that's ridiculous? Anyway, I guess it explains why it takes
so long to compile...
> 'Controller' and a 'View' for each of the different dialogs, for the
> Menubars, for the Toolbars and for the main LyX screen itself. How could a
> job we have made of this separation is a matter for debate and is an
> on-going process.
I suspect a typo in the last sentence, since it doesn't make sense to
me... Did you mean "How good a job we..."?
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
