Re: Developing Using Selector Methods

2019-06-20 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Douglas, Thanks. Plenty of food for thought in your post too! Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. -- Kirk has explained how the “form controller” approach works and it is essentially the same as selector methods. In the past, I avoided that approach, as I’ll touch on b

Re: Developing Using Selector Methods

2019-06-20 Thread Douglas von Roeder via 4D_Tech
ve overcome my conceptual concerns by viewing the FC approach as a being a flexible dispatcher method so I’ve convinced myself that I’m not violating the “a method should have one clearly defined purpose” guideline. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:48 AM Narinder Chandi

Re: Developing Using Selector Methods

2019-06-20 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Kirk, Hi. Thanks for that lengthy response! You make a lot of useful points in regards to v17 for sure and in fact I have already been reading up and digesting the implications of the new ways of working in 4D, particularly Form and ORDA. And yes, it totally makes sense to re-think ones approac

Re: Developing Using Selector Methods

2019-06-20 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
hings 15 years ago. Focus on the new stuff and run with it. That's where the platform is headed. And it's just a lot more fun, too. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:48 AM Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I'm wondering, who out there is still actively

Developing Using Selector Methods

2019-06-20 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
I'm wondering, who out there is still actively developing using selector methods? For a long time now (way back since v6, perhaps even before that...) I have tended to encapsulate all of my code into Project Methods such that Form and Object level methods consist of nothing more than a