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In the "old" paradigm: if i had a Delete button on a form, that deletes a
row from a listview i would write

procedure TForm1.bbDelete(Sender: TObject);
begin
if Assigned(lvCustomer.Selected) then
lvCustomers.Selected.Delete;
end;

and be done with it.


In the MVC paradigm, i would write:

procedure TForm1.bbDelete(Sender: TObject);
begin
FCustomersController.DeleteSelectedCustomer;
end;

procedure TCustomersController.DeletedSelectedCustomer;
var
Item: TListItem;
begin
Item := FView.GetSelectedCustomerItem;

if Assigned(Item) then
FView.DeletedCustomerItem(Item);
end;

procedure TForm1.GetSelectedCustomerItem;
begin
Result := lvCustomers.Selected;
end;

procedure TForm1.DeletedCustomerItem(Item: TListItem);
begin
Item.Delete;
end;



Why am i making triple the work for myself?



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<snip>

Because you're paid by the hour?

EdB



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In article <470d2102$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >,



<snip something that doesn't sacrifice a chicken>

Have you given an acolyte of the most honorable helmsthingy thine
tribute?

--
-David

Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?

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LOL!

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Rudy Velthuis http://www.yqcomputer.com/

"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
-- Groucho Marx

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Because you're too kind to chickens.

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Because you haven't choked your chicken yet ?

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Strong Bo

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:-)

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borland.public.off-topic exists as a runoff for unwanted posts in the
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Ian, the multiple reference to chickens here might confuse you. It is
cutsomary that you must sacrifice at least one chicken before you will
get a meaningful answer to a technical question in this group (it is
called b.p.off-topic, after all).

You could either sacrifice that chicken, or you could navigate to
borland.public.delphi.oodesign and ask there. <g>


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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education
and catastrophe." -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

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what's this about confused chickens?



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> Ian, the multiple reference to chickens here might confuse you. It is

i hope the MVC software architecture never becomes accepted enough to
warrant posting in any "on-topic" borland group. i certainly don't want to
sully oodesign with MVC architecture.

It is off-topic, and i hope it says that way.


/me sacrifices a chicken. Cluck-uckk!



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Why not? It is very on-topic there.

Too late. MVC is/was already the main architecture of systems like
Smalltalk, OWL (for Borland C++ and for ), etc.


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"Don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things."

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> Too late. MVC is/was already the main architecture of systems like

/me shakes fist. Curse you Xerox PARC. Curse you!



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I actually like Smalltalk.
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"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." -- Brian Kernighan

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> I actually like Smalltalk.


Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++. (Frank Winkler)

Java: the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk. (Jan
Steinman)




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I had both in my quotes collection already. <g>

In the meantime, current implementations of Smalltalk are
compiled/jitted, AFAIK. So are current implementations of Java.

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"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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