Le 26 févr. 2011 à 08:08, Christopher Armstrong a écrit : > On 26/02/2011, at 02:53 AM, Quentin Mathé wrote: > > I only meant making an entire copy of an object so that you could alter it > independently and use it like a template (sort of like the Prototype design > pattern). >> >> Do you mean how the UI would provide a visual hint starting that an object >> is a copy or how you mark/use an object as a template? >> >> For using objects as templates… >> What I had in mind it to have "aspect repositories" in which you can put >> arbitrary objects into it organized by categories/kinds (Colors, Layouts, >> Images, Shapes etc.). Because a repository would accept arbitrary objects >> (by allowing new categories to be added), you could use it to organize >> templates or styles. By using such a repository as a model object with >> EtoileUI, you could easily materialize various UI stereotypes (that would me >> made available as reusable EtoileUI layouts): >> - an object palette >> - a style picker/palette >> - a template chooser >> >> To give some concrete examples… a wiget palette in a UI builder, a >> color/pattern palette in a graphics editor, a document template chooser etc. >> would fit into these UI stereotypes. >> >> Also each aspect repository would be a core object, so the changes to them >> would be recorded. >> >> But I haven't give much thinking to how the documentation creation should >> work step-by-step when you decide to start from a template rather than a >> "blank page"… >> >> Each project could include a default aspect/template repository when >> created. May be some inheritance mechanism could be needed?… For example, if >> you copy a project (in the sense you use it as template), then the new >> project could have its default repository set to inherit from the default >> repository of the original project. In fact, it could be easier/simpler to >> just copy the templates from the original project into the new project. >> >> I'll commit this aspect repository thing to EtoileFoundation next month. >> >> What's your on take on that? > > I'm not sure - I don't quite grasp the concept :-(. If I were to interpret > what you saying, a project is to be created with a set of templates (your > aspect repository) that dictate the default template for new documents in > that project. You create these aspect repositories by putting copies of > documents you've created into them.
Yes, that's correct. >>> Hopefully I'll get round to writing some more of these ideas soon. > > I've written my last set out into a new copy of the documentation, sitting as > a LaTeX file in SVN under trunk/Documentation somewhere. ok. I'll take a look… Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
