Re: [Gnumed-devel] PropertySupport

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Another problem is most (actually, virtually all) of gnumed UI code is 
> contained 
> as plugins. Plugins are meant to be self-contained items of code, ideally one 
> file, 
> to do a specific job. Users can load and unload modules at anytime. A 
> separate file  
> to hold handlers complicates things, as it has to be loaded/unloaded in 
> unison with
> its 'original' plugin file (but certainly doable).
IMHO, this is achievable by importing a plugin-specific handler file
in the plugin code and del()ing it upon deregister()ing.

> In addition, the current plugin system is poorly designed, as has been 
> commented on before,
Exactly what in it is so poorly designed ?

> All our "hand-rolled" screen widgets, such as gmEditArea, inherit from 
> gmWidget, so that they all
> update their values into the common dictionary (which is a member of the 
> plugin object)
IMHO no. A GUI plugin is a GUI plugin. It should have nothing
to do with a business object except talking to its API.

> [can this end the need to scan files and add handlers in a separate file? 
> Each widget could handle all of its
> own events. Or am I missing something?]
I guess yes it can. Teaching our widgets how to talk
generally to business objects is a good idea and can well be
done via a common ancester - or rather mixin in this case.

Karsten
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