Value of a ListBox, FMC paradigm for Form elements (controls)

[Michael Stahl]

On 20/04/13 23:34, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:12:43AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
>> Context: (Data)Forms and their elements (controls).
> 
>> PROBLEM 2: Frame-Controller-Model paradigm as applied to Form elements
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> 
>> Frame elements seem to have a b0rken implementation of the
>> Frame-Controller-Model paradigm.
> 
> I now understand the system, more or less. Actually, they implement a
> *different* paradigm, the "Model / View" paradigm, described at
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Forms/Models_and_Views_for_Form_Controls

surely an office suite cannot use the same model - view paradigm
consistently everywhere, that would make things far too easy to
understand.  the success of C++ clearly shows that half-assed support of
multiple paradigms is the way to go.

> The model does not know its views, *but* the upper level document (the
> SwXTextView) has an API that takes a model and returns the
> corresponding view (control); see
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Forms/Form_Layer_Views#Locating_Controls

hmm at least it was documented somewhere...

>  Also, do we have our fork of the
> OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide?

we don't.  AFAIK this is the only resource where we rely on AOO
currently.  which is a problem since it'd probably considered bad
manners if we edited that to document features that don't exist in AOO.

clearly it would be a good idea to import this thing into some TDF Wiki.