Dov Wasserman wrote:
> It's a valid question in general, but since you're designing this
> functionality from the ground up (and not retro-fitting it in to
> existing code), wouldn't the better approach be to create a non-GUI 
> HList class, and a GUI subclass that adds the indicator methods? Or 
> even better, less tightly coupled and in line with the MVC pattern, an 
> HListModel class and a HListWidget class that composes an HListModel 
> within it.

Well, yes.  But I wasn't mentioning this as "the best way" to handle this
particular case; rather, I was using this particular case to illustrate
the more general question.  How do I remove functionality from a class or
role that someone else put together?  


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Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang


        
                
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