On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here are some technical notes while they are still fresh in my mind:

> The Window class must eventually migrate to the other gui classes.
...
> Eventually I will probably have to shuffle the code to other classes,
> or at the very least assign "official" ivars like c.frame, c.frame.tree,
> c.frame.body to entities created in the Ui_MainWindow class.

Almost immediately after writing this I realized that there is a
better way.  As Ville says, the Ui_MainWindow class should be left
alone, and its own file.

In the past, the only choices (I saw) for classes like leoQtTree were
to "be" a qt tree or to "have" a qt tree.  But there is another
choice: to "refer" to a qt tree.  This makes leoQtTree a two-way
adapter class.  It has two interfaces: one to Leo's core, the other to
Ui_MainWindow.

This Aha will decrease the work: there is no need to refactor the code
produced by the gui designer.  It greatly simplifies the actual code
in the adapter classes, and it provides a new design pattern for Leo's
gui plugins.

Edward

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