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From: dean@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Dean Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Sharing code (was: book on MVC triad)
Message-ID: <1989Jun29.050323.28432@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 89 05:03:23 GMT
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From article <53612@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, by abbott@aerospace.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott):
 > plans is to have a window in which the file system structure is
 > displayed as a tree (really a directed graph) of directories.  Clicking
 > on a node will cause a subwindow to pop up in which the files at that
 > node are displayed.  It would be nice if instead of building the MVC for
 > the tree browser ourselves we could make use of one already built.
 > 
 > -- Russ Abbott (abbott@itro3.aero.org)

Smalltalk/V comes with code to do exactly what you want.  It wouldn't take much
work to translate it from St/V's Model-Pane-Dispatcher scheme to St-80's
Model-View-Controller scheme.  Panes are essentially equivalent to Views, and
Dispatchers correspond to Controllers.  I don't know about the legalities of
using or modifying Digitalk's code though.  You should check with them about
it.

-Dean Swan
dean@sun.soe.clarkson.edu