[brailleblaster] Re: Proposal: a new class in views package
- From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:46:06 -0500
Since each view extends AbstractViews, initialize Views could be an
abstract method in the class, then implemented for each View.
-Brandon
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John.
>
> We could do that. I'm sort of leaving it to Brandon and Chuck but what I
> had in mind is to just have methods in each view like:
>
> onInitialUpdate
>
> and
>
> onUpdate
>
> Each view is bound to the document and so in these two methods they would
> just make whatever calls to the document they needed to initialize and
> update themselves.
>
> Since we have several different kinds of views we might also want to
> define an interface that each view can implement to handle communication
> with the document.
>
> This is much cleaner I think than having something that has to know about
> each view and initialize it.
>
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
> KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> Phone: 502.895.2405
> Skype: keith537
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:13 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Proposal: a new class in views package
>
> I think it would be a good idea to have a class in the views package
> called something like innitializeViews . It would call on methods in
> DocumentBase to provide the text and Braille associated with elements and
> would call another method to transmit back the starting and ending
> positions of the text in the StyledText view. This information would later
> be used to find the location in the document corresponding to the cursor
> location. It would be updated when the document is edited.
>
> John
>
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> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
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