Re: [RFA] New Event Model Prototype

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Jim Ingham wrote:
> 
> Fernando & Keith,
> 
> This seems like a good change.  The only thing I wonder about is if
> there will ever be an agent that needs to listen to notifications that
> is NOT a GUI element?  Hanging the methods off GDBWin forces this to be
> the case.  It might be cleaner to make a GDBNotification class, and have
> GDBWin inherit from that (as well as ManagedWin).  That way, if you got
> a non-window class that needed to listen to these as well, it could also
> inherit from GDBNotification.  It also means that the place to go to
> look up the hooks has ONLY the hooks for notification, and no noise from
> other stuff that might be good to put in GDBWin.
> 

Very good idea.  I would call it GDBEvents to be shorter to type :-)


> Jim
> 
> P.S. When Martin & I first talked about the whole GDBWin thing, it was
> with the notion of using it for this sort of stuff, but I didn't at the
> time think about whether ONLY windows would want this capability...  Now
> I give it another thunk, I thought maybe tying them this closely is not
> so good.
> 

I don't think Keith will mind making this change.  I guess he only used the GDBWin files because they were already there, asking for some "filling" :-)


Thanks for your prompt comments.


Best regards,
Fernando



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