• BLS (24/24) Feb 24 2007 Hi folks, AFAIK

BLS <Killing_Zoe web.de> writes:

Hi folks, AFAIK
the Observer / Observable pattern is dealing with One to Many relations 
while the Publisher / Subscriber pattern is able (better: Is  made for) 
Many to Many relations between observers and subjects.
I am actually working on a GUI Framework following the
"Multimedia" Oberon Program Editor "Edit" described in :

Szyperski Write-Ing Applications     (implemented in the Oberon OS)

http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/szyperski92writeing.html

For the impatient, the Texteditor is THE    GUI Framework, or simply 
said  : Scintilla is far away from beeing good enough .

*What I would like to know :  Featuring  multiple different VIEWS on the 
same MODEL including non textual elements like GRAPHS, HYPERTEXT, 
RUNTIME_ELEMEMTS within an MDI environment ... Does this really requires 
and Publisher/Subscriber implementation.

Let me try to explain it a bit better, For Instance :
My planned Multimedia Editor  contains 2  classes their graphical 
representation (UML f.i.) modul dependencies, http links, EBNF 
visualisation an DSL Interpreter... may be they are sharing one window, 
may be the are splittet.Modifying something should/could have an direct 
impact to everything else.
Can Observer based Signal/Slot do that for me, or is in this case the 
publisher/subscriber pattern the preferable implementation ?

Opinions, hints, ideas  are Welcome
Many thanks in advance, Bjoern