[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 04:49, fssc wrote:
> I think a number of you are putting words in to my email, did I say anywhere
> that mono ui should not be using MVC??? That would be crazy! The basic lists
> boxes etc that I talk about use an MVC model, it's just internalised, it you
> want to externalise it you can.
> 
> >From what people are suggestiing even the humble label should have an
> external model, are they serious? Do they know how many labels some forms
> have? I would much rather simple change the caption propoerty on the object
> inspector rather than drag another control on to the form which will be
> responsible for storing the caption string, and then hook up the label to
> the caption model component. That is not a sensibile way to do things.
> Perhaps there is a difference between a visual design environment and a
> command line approach to designing GUIs, but I don't understand why pople
> insist that all GUI controls must use an external model instead when
> sometimes an internal model will do just fine.
> 
I don't know about what other people are advocating, but I'm myself
talking about having both systems, so that you can use the non-MVC
approach and the MVC one whenever you need one or the other.

Of course, for creating labels in a form, usually, you just want to set
the caption and that's all, but it's very useful to have the option to
use MVC whenever you want.

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@ximian.com>