Re: [Help-smalltalk] BLOX vs GTK

[Paolo Bonzini]

Mike Anderson wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>   
> > The browser is another story.  The model-dispatcher system is incredibly
> > complicated and I never really unravelled it.  Even the Namespace
> > browser was mostly done by cut'n'paste'n'hope-it-works, I'm not very
> > pleased to say...
> >     
>
> I think the model-dispatcher system is quite elegant,
You mean you understood how PList and friend are updated? :-P
>  but I couldn't
> apply it easily to widgets like the GtkTextBuffer/View, where a lot of
> the state is held outside of the image (unless you want to do a lot of
> duplication).
>   
Yes, and the same is true also for relatively simpler widgets like a 
single-column TreeView.

Paolo