I’m working on redoing ComboBox and I could use some input on best practices.
Right now, ComboBox has ComboBox view which has three components hard-wired in. It has TextInput, TextButton, and List. If any visuals or behavior need to be changed, the entire view needs to be rewritten. We’ve already had two cases where I needed a new view. One was to disable the TextInput input and change the button appearance. The second was to support images in a dropdown. It seems to me like the ComboBoxView should add the three components based on declared classes. I think there should be 1. A “Button” component. 2. An ItemRenderer component for the “input” which displays the selected item. 3. A List component for displaying the dropdown. The question I’m struggling with is how to declare these. I don’t think it makes sense to make these all beads. Currently Buttons are not beads. Should we add interfaces (i.e. IButton) and declare the classes using interfaces? I mean something similar to IItemRenderer. Maybe just use ValuesManager to just lookup some other “name”? We’re currently doing something similar with ColumnClassName in DynamicDataGrid. Other ideas? Thanks, Harbs
