Re: Newbie - desigining apps

[Anthony Kozar]

IHDTM (I haven't done this myself), but based on knowledge of how scriptable
applications are often implemented on other platforms, I would suggest using
the Model-View-Controller pattern/paradigm.  Basically, you strive for a
clean separation between your data objects, the objects that display the
data, and the mechanisms/interface objects that allow those objects to be
manipulated.  (Just do a seach online for MVC to learn more).

This approach definitely requires designing your app from the beginning with
this separation in mind.  But the benefits of this design will I think be
useful in the future if you decide to add other controllers, views, etc.

In your case, I would guess that you will start off with two sets of
controllers for the same data -- one for your GUI and one for Guile.


Anthony Kozar
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http://akozar.spymac.net/

On 10/7/04 9:12 PM, Max Polk<address@hidden> etched in stone:

> Have others found that supporting Guile in an application means
> rethinking how it runs at it's very core?  For example, instead of
> writing use cases and designing from that, now I have a use case like
> "let the user call any higher-level function".