In a message of Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:36:39 +1200, Greg Ewing writes: >Marius Gedminas wrote: >> I never fully understood the "controller" part of it; > >Me neither. I *think* in the original Smalltalk terminology, >the view handled output and the controller handled input. >But I find that input and output are usually so closely >coupled that it's not worth having two separate objects, >so I just talk about a View and a Model. > >In Cocoa, they seem to use the word "controller" to >refer to an intermediate object that sits between the >model and a collection of user interface objects >and coordinates them. In my code, I usually use a >subclass of Window for this, so again it's not a >separate object. > >-- >Greg
see: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatsaControllerAnyway for how the usage has changed. Laura
