On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 04:49, fssc wrote: > I think a number of you are putting words in to my email, did I say anywhere > that mono ui should not be using MVC??? That would be crazy! The basic lists > boxes etc that I talk about use an MVC model, it's just internalised, it you > want to externalise it you can. > > >From what people are suggestiing even the humble label should have an > external model, are they serious? Do they know how many labels some forms > have? I would much rather simple change the caption propoerty on the object > inspector rather than drag another control on to the form which will be > responsible for storing the caption string, and then hook up the label to > the caption model component. That is not a sensibile way to do things. > Perhaps there is a difference between a visual design environment and a > command line approach to designing GUIs, but I don't understand why pople > insist that all GUI controls must use an external model instead when > sometimes an internal model will do just fine. > I don't know about what other people are advocating, but I'm myself talking about having both systems, so that you can use the non-MVC approach and the MVC one whenever you need one or the other.
Of course, for creating labels in a form, usually, you just want to set the caption and that's all, but it's very useful to have the option to use MVC whenever you want. cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
