[Idle-dev] IDLE "shell" (was: IDLE interpreter window)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:39:03 +0100


Martijn Faassen wrote:
> A GUI abstraction layer for a specific application is easier to do =
than a=20
> general abstraction layer. This kind of abstraction is called =
'View-Model-
> Controller', I thought.

in contrast to "Model-View-Controller", you mean? ;-)

fwiw, all Tkinter widgets use MVC -- but in most cases,
with a tight coupling between the model and the view.
in uiToolkit, we've made things more MVCish -- which
makes the toolkit more general [1], not less.

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1) as in "not confined by specialization or careful limitation"