On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM, cboulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen schrieb:
> > - Unify lists, tables, trees, dropdowns, menu's as far as possible.
> > At least on an interface level.
> >
> Yes, yes, yes! I like the direction this discussion is going. That is
> what we are doing in qcl.databinding (or qcl.databinding.simple, at the
> moment, the main code being completely rewritten) with the MDataManager
> mixin. Any widget that has some data to display should have the same
> methods which just take or deliver different kind of data, so that
> writing generic databinding code get hell of a lot easier...
>
> @Derrell: you are right to point out that it is easier to criticize than
> to contribute code, but there has to be some general agreement on the
> architecture of something fundamental as a generic widget data
> interface, and I don't think it will work without the support of the
> core developers.
>
> This proposal has my support, if that's what you're asking for. I don't
get paid to work on qooxdoo, though, and I can't anticipate that any time
soon I'd be able to spend the time on an architectural change of this
magnitude. That why I prompted Ralf to contribute code to implement this.
I agree with the concept! 20-20 hindsight is always useful for coming up
with a better design. :-)
It may or may not be too late for the guys working on 0.8 to consider a
change of this magnitude. I can't speak for Sebastian, Fabian, Andreas, et
al, but I expect they'll chime in.
Cheers,
Derrell
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