have a go at this
http://www.cairngormdocs.org/tools/CairngormDiagramExplorer.swf

DK

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:37 AM, oscar.12321 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the past few days reading about Cairngorm and, at all, i don't
> understand the concept behind de events and commands.
>
> The people says that a event-command pair corresponds to a user
> gesture or system event: clicks, app init, etc. But when i browse the
> Cairngorm store app i found things like these:
>
> - Command modifies the model and the model notifies the view throw
> bindings: this seems logic to me.
>
> - Selecting a product in the view directly changes the
> model.selectedItem: where is the command?. What we have here is a user
> gesture and a model update without Cairngorm event or command.
>
> - Retrieving the products with a GetProductsCommand: what kind of
> event+command is this?. The system event shold be appInit or the like,
> and then usually you need to retrieve many things, not only products.
> Why server request = command?
>
> - Finally, the checkout process is divided in a sequence of commands.
> The user gesture is checkout, but the app uses serveral commands.
>
> This has no sense for me. I think the theory was right, but when
> applied is twisted to match the framework limitations.
>
> This is suposed to be the mother of the samples (an the only one, i
> think).
>
> Could any one clarify me when to use a command an how to explain the
> concept to other people?
>
> Thanks
>
> - Oscar
>
> 



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