Model View Controller and the Observer pattern
John Hinsley
jhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Tue Aug 28 19:19:29 UTC 2001
Albertina Lourenci <lourenci at lsi.usp.br> wrote:
> And artists only feel attracted towards friendly things.
Don't you find Squeak friendly and cute?
> Could you please tell me where I can read more about this (MVC + Morphic)?
Maybe a good place to start is John Maloney's paper
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/35
(this is the chapter from
Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia
edited by Mark Guzdial and Kim Rose
Prentice-Hall)
On the Squeak list, John recently wrote:
> Morphic is a graphical object system that's completely independent of
> MVC; you can even remove MVC from a Morphic Squeak image entirely.
>
> The biggest difference is that Morphic has an incremental display update
> system that allows many graphical objects to be animating or updating at
> the same time, whereas in MVC only one window (controller) is active at
> any given time.
>
> Morphic and MVC both have their strengths. MVC is better when memory
> or processor cycles are in short supply. It is smaller, simpler, and more
> efficient, but it doesn't do as many cool things. Morphic makes it easy to
> have a lot of things happening at once, and it helps the programmer
> create window contents that goes beyond text and list panes.
Which is a pretty fair (albeit brief!) summary from the horse's mouth.
Cheers
John
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