Data-binding infrastructure.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-29 12.36, BLS wrote:
> On 28/06/2010 18:36, lurker wrote:
>> Do you think Phobos could benefit by adding data-binding interfaces? The
>> purpose is to provide the infrastructure necessary so that other
>> libraries
>> (GUI Toolkits, Validation, ORMs, etc) can inter-operate seamlessly.
>>
>> In .NET there's a whole set of interfaces for this purpose. They don't
>> have a
>> great design but the fact that they are standard makes possible to
>> create an
>> object that can be bound everywhere and performs validation everywhere
>> (everywhere been, windows client, web application or web service).
>>
>> You can see all interfaces related to data-binding here:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/41e17s4b.aspx
>>
>> But the more used are these three:
>>
>> INotifyPropertyChanged
>> Provides an event to notify listeners that a property has changed.
>>
>> IDataErrorInfo
>> Provides methods that allow validating and display corresponding GUI
>> elements
>> to the user.
>>
>> IBindingList
>> Provides notification when a collection has changed (elements
>> added/removed,
>> clear, update, ...)
>>
>> Thanks
> I like the idea..
> IMHO this could be done by porting and enhancing the Mono code, use
> Stevens dcollection lib, enhance dCollection with observable containers
> and you are nearly done. Due to the Mono license a phobos independent
> project is appropriate.
> my 2 cents, bjoern
>

Why do we need to port the Mono code? This seems quite easy to implement.

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Jacob Carlborg