Re: [boost] [gui] Shoulders of Giants

From: Manfred Doudar (manfred.doudar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 09:48:05

Alan Gutierrez wrote:

>* Dave Harris <brangdon_at_[hidden]> [2004-12-23 07:14]:
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>>In-Reply-To: <20041222211651.GD2616_at_[hidden]>
>>alan-boost_at_[hidden] (Alan Gutierrez) wrote (abridged):
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>>>    I'd like to take some time and study what has gone before.
>>>[...]
>>>    I've advocated the use of a CSS layout component to render
>>>    the View-Controller aspect [...]
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>>Are you aware of the variations on MVC, in particular 
>>Model-View-Presenter? MVP has been so successful in Smalltalk that I 
>>consider MVC obsolete. Taligent's whitepaper is here:
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>>  http://www.carfield.com.hk/document/software_design/MVP.pdf
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>    This is password protected. Somewhere else perhaps?
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You can get this document here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010827084558/www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/mvp.html

Note however, the only difference between this and the original is that 
they've
simply replaced most occurances of  "C++" with the word "Java"  - now 
that's
heretical revisionism if ever I saw it !

>>and there is more material at Object Art's Smalltalk site:
>>http://www.object-arts.com/EducationCentre/Overviews/ModelViewPresenter.htm
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>    A cursory glance, and I can't see any distiction between the
>    concept of a Presenter and Controller.
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>    Okay, a search for Controller on the page reveals this link.
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>    http://www.object-arts.com/EducationCentre/Overviews/MVC.htm
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>    Which I'll read and consider, thank you.
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>Alan Gutierrez - alan_at_[hidden]
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Manfred Doudar
MetOcean Engineers