Re: Proxy Window of another

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Sun May 04 01:31:24 2008

Am 03.05.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Daniel Rampanelli:
> I was thinking wheter it is possible to create a sort of "proxy" 
> window which displays the content of another. Of course, the further 
> step would be to also pass events from the proxied window to the 
> source one. Is this even possible?



  What are you trying to do?

  Usually, "content" translates to "model", "display" generally 
translates to "view", so according to the Model-View-Controller 
paradigm, you could create another instance of your controller that 
has its own copy of the views, but points at the same model, instead 
of forwarding events.

  That's one of the advantages of Cocoa's MVC design: If you separate 
the view and the model code, you can easily have several windows 
showing the same data. It's also more flexible than just duplicating a 
window and forwarding its contents, because it can be scrolled to a 
different location, can have a different toolbar collapse state, can 
be a different size etc.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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