Recent changes to feature-requests

Use PicoContainer for component mgmt

Mike Hogan — Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:12:45 -0000

Hi,

Please consider using PicoContainer in the Scope 2.0
rewrite. http://picocontainer.codehaus.org.

I'm asking for this partly for selfish reasons in that I use
scope and picocontainer and want integration to be
easy. But there is also the selfless reason that using
Pico yields very good code.

Thanks,
Mike.

Presentation layer

Anonymous — Tue, 27 May 2003 18:50:29 -0000

Hi,

I am currently looking at Scope to implement standard
form handling (data entry).
I think this is one of the most used things when it
comes to gui programming!
So it would be nice if Scope has some sort of build in
controller/classes to take care of the 'hard' part.

Looking at the Swing implementation i feel it hard to
replace SwingView and Scope components with for
example SWT (controls).

So i would like to redesigning the presentation layer
with use of the bridge design pattern.

I asume your familair with the GoF book so i refer to
pages 150/151.
By implementing the bridge design pattern Scope
developers are free to use whatever gui lib they want!

I hope you find this just as interesting as i do and if i
can help you out with the design/implementation i'm
more than happy to do!!!

Regards,

Will

Open a forum for discussion

Waily Yang — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:14:32 -0000

It will be much better to open a forum for discussion.

About Thread for swing and jsp

Waily Yang — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:07:30 -0000

Since there is another project dealing with threads for
Swing, how about adopt it for HMVC ?

Foxtrot is an easy and powerful API to use threads with
the JavaTM Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing).

Here is the link
http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/

STextField and <tab> key

Ludovic Claude — Mon, 27 May 2002 12:00:14 -0000

STextField should fire a Control when it has been
modified and the focus is lost after pressing <tab> or
after selecting another widget on the view. This would
make the behaviour consistent with pressing the <enter>
key on a textfield.

Soap Mail Service using Scope clients

Dennis Carroll — Fri, 24 May 2002 19:21:42 -0000

This application implements a simple mail sending service
via JavaMail

The interface:
String post(String from, String[] recipients, String[] cc,
String subject, String textMessage )

Included are four clients:

A java console client.
A swing application implemented with the Scope 1.0 library
(http://scope.sourceforge.net)
A servlet application implemented with the Scope 1.0 library
A Visual Basic client application.

JApplet as parent of BasicController

Christian Heller — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:22:32 -0000

Is it possible to let BasicController inherit from
class JApplet or Applet?

It should make no difference to current users of
BasicController.
But in our project, we could provide an online demo
(web browser based) of our application...

Use of Exceptions

Christian Heller — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:54:26 -0000

I had some compile problem because I tried to throw
an Exception as follows:

protected void
doHandleControl(org.scopemvc.core.Control c) throws
NullPointerException {

But unfortunately the overridden method does not
throw this exception. I am aware of the fact that you
can't let your Scope methods throw all kinds of
exceptions that might occure.

How will we handle this problem as we are using
Exceptions extensively, in nearly all methods??

Thanks,
Christian

Use interfaces instead of classes

Christian Heller — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:38:23 -0000

We are trying to work with interfaces where possible.
Handing over parameters in method headers etc. is
done with interfaces.

Many of Scope's methods require classes to be handed
over. This is somewhat unpractical to us since we
have to cast down all our parameters before handing
them over to Scope, e.g.:

private ResMenu
createApplicationMenu(ResMedicinaeView v) {
...
ResMenuItem exitSystemMenuItem = new ResMenuItem();
exitSystemMenuItem.setOwner((ResMedicinaeViewImpl) v);
...
}

It would be nicer, if we could just write:
exitSystemMenuItem.setOwner(v);

--
This request shouldn't bother other people who have
already used Scope with classes as parameters. Since
those classes inherit from "View", they can be handed
over as "View" from method to method - no changes
necessary.
For us, on the contrary, it would be much easier to
work with our interfaces.

Regards & Thanks,
Christian

Provide get/set for rootpanes

Christian Heller — Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:19:29 -0000

In class org.scopemvc.controller.swing.SwingContext,
provide a public get and set method for attribute:
private LinkedList rootpanes = new LinkedList();