Re: [Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

2006-12-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Your first pass is not going to be pretty. That's OK. My first pass is procedural; Bret's first pass is crazy OOP or something; I don't know what Jonathan's first pass is like, but I gather it has a lot of code duplication. However you can get it to work. Actually,

Re: [Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

2006-12-14 Thread Ċ½eljko Filipin
On 12/14/06, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once my test, using this method, is passing, then i start my Crazy OOP stuff (mostly use simple design patterns, actually). Would you also post which simple design patterns are you using? I am very interested to see what others are doing.

[Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

2006-12-13 Thread philip reed
My due diligence has been rather sketchy -- just trying a couple of listserv queries and skimming the User Guide for the first time in a while -- so if this is answered elsewhere feel free to gently rebuke me and point me in that direction. :) I'll seize on a simple example of something I'm

Re: [Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

2006-12-13 Thread Bret Pettichord
philip reed wrote: When I sit down to implement this my perfectionism gets all caught up in questions like, Do I need a separate class for my client's specific site and another for the Sendcard UI in general? (so that other sendcard sites can easily reuse the same code) or stuff like that.

Re: [Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

2006-12-13 Thread Chris McMahon
The stuff i use a lot gets refactored a lot until i am happy with the design. Actually, Bret refactors to the point where I find his code a little difficult to parse in my head. :) One thing at a time. Amen. In other words, I agree with everything Chris said. The only problem I have