Basically, every bead would have a list of “interests”. Rather than add event 
listeners, beads would list their interests. It should be much lighter-weight 
and enable looser coupling.

I might pick up where I left off on that, although it’s going to be difficult 
to pull my changes after the Great Rename… ;-)

Harbs

> On Dec 7, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Piotr Zarzycki <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Harbs,
> 
> Can you please recall how would it help to resolve the situation when we
> need for example those two models TextModel and ImageModel - assuming that
> they were splitted ?
> 
> Thanks, Piotr
> 
> 2017-12-07 12:26 GMT+01:00 Harbs <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Related:
>> 
>> Currently the architecture assumes that there’s a single view, model, or
>> controller. Many of these could (and maybe should) be broken into smaller
>> logic pieces. For example, there’s TextAndImageButton which has a
>> TextAndImageModel, when all it really needs is a TextModel and an
>> ImageModel. I think part of the problem is that the component is too
>> strongly coupled to the model. I think what we really need is for a
>> lightweight way for a component to say “Someone is setting property x.
>> Anyone who cares please take note.” I think the work I started on Strands
>> and Beads a number of months back might be the right direction for this.
>> 
>>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Piotr Zarzycki <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Harbs,
>>> 
>>> I would also place the logic which changes the image into the View bead.
>> If
>>> I correct understand your thoughts. I think if it is possible it would be
>>> great reuse ImageButton in somehow, cause actually it is doing for one
>>> state what you want.
>>> 
>>> It is the matter of handling states in the view.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Piotr
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2017-12-07 11:46 GMT+01:00 Harbs <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>>> I need a toggle button which displays images (i.e. ImageToggleButton).
>>>> 
>>>> Right now, the way ImageButton works is that the main component modifies
>>>> the element to show an image. This works only if you want a single
>> image no
>>>> matter what the state of the button is. If you want different images on
>>>> hover, active, selected, etc. that requires a separate component.
>>>> Additionally, I wanted a button in an app which uses images for states.
>> I
>>>> ended up just using a plain old div and setting the background image via
>>>> css for the different states. Adding components for each and every use
>> case
>>>> seems broken.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideally, with Royale architecture, the component should really be much
>>>> more about the behavior of the component and the view should be
>> delegated
>>>> to a bead.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m thinking that the logic which sets the html of the element should
>> be a
>>>> a view bead. Any thoughts about reworking this?
>>>> 
>>>> Harbs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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