Re: Homework question relating to docview
Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
Yes, that's my point. The document is being reactive to requests to manipulate its
contents, that is, do document-related things. As a consequence of these commands, it
does document-related things. It has no responsibility for HOW those messages are
generated (the user is free to use menus, shortcut keys, or whatever the user feels like,
as long as it receives the message, it doesn't care about how it was generated) and
therefore the document is not RESPONSIBLE for the interface, it is merely REACTIVE to the
interface. But if it pops up a dialog, it is taking RESPONSIBILITY for the interface, and
that is inappropriate, because that presumes that it understands the desired user
interface.
Documents do not COMMUNICATE to users, they merely REACT to events. Why would it make
sense to presume that the document should know the desirable way to get information?
Hi Joe:
Well, I have flushed you out into the open :). We are not talking any
more about picking some color used in the view, but rather specifying
the most document-centric thing you could imagine -- the document data
itself.
But isn't the Save As dialog a user interface item? Or do you think
having the document handle that is a design error in MFC? If so, then I
suppose you think that CDocument should not derive from CCmdTarget at all?
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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