Doug, Cannon, Kirk, David, Arnaud, JPR and all those who have contributed to this interested discussion. Thanks!
I am a permanent lurker, routine poster and occasional contributor to the NUG. I suspect that there are others like myself who do not have the in depth background /experience or education in the theory of MVC, UI Models, etc to go there entirely on my own. But 4D is critical to my business, so I always look at ways of improving my coding skills and use of 4D. Could any of you give me an ‘"elevator pitch” of why someone ( well in this case, me) would want to go through the effort of making the substantive changes necessary to implement this model? What advantages are there over “standard” 4D? What disadvantages are there compared to “Standard” 4D? I am partial to generic reusable code. Years ago I went through the trouble of creating a “process controller” which allows me to control and change almost all aspects ( window parameters, columns, buttons, behaviors, toolbars) of any process in a compiled database. The parameters are stored in an object in the resources folder. At first I was afraid that the overhead of generating the forms at run time would slow down the user experience, but that proved not to be the case and this method once thoroughly debugged and test driven now allows me to rapidly create / modify processes in my application without hardcoding. Thanks again and yes a Summit presentation would be great. Mitch ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
