Jim- right on and well said- that was exactly my confusion.... Kirillcool said: you're using core view classes in your model. The Shape and its derived classes are for painting on the screen. Although they might seem like a good option to use in the model, they aren't in most cases (as you're starting to see), since they're targeting the screen (view).
Well Rectangle keeps state in just the way you say it shouldn't, if you mean by state enough information to draw it to the screen in a specific place. It has an x and a y and you can mutate those through it's methods and as a result of that mutation it will draw itself elsewhere. That's state. . So I am not understanding what you're saying. In what sense is Rectangle not keeping the state you think I want to keep, because I want to keep the same "state" it has. It's not that views shouldn't hold state, it's that they shouldn't hold non-view state. Renderers etc have state to them, colors Components etc etc.... so also does rectangle have a state- the x and y coordinates of it's upper left hand corner (ULHC going forward). Are you saying Rectangle is wrong for holding onto this state? [Message sent by forum member 'swv' (swv)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=228064 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
