[Seaside] Re: Menu component - communicating with root component

[Boris Popov]

... but announcement is exactly there to help a child articulate its
needs whenever they desire something. If you wire a child to only tell
its parents when it's hungry, things aren't going to go so smoothly when
you leave him/her at daycare.

-Boris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:seaside-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Keith Hodges
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:58 PM
> To: Seaside - general discussion
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Re: Menu component - communicating with root
> component
> 
> Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> >> so, to set-up a wiring you need to have visible both instances of
> >> driver and semaphore in some code to wire them up, which is not
always
> >> simple because they can be placed using complex hierarchy like:
> >>
> >> street
> >>  |    |
> >>  |   car -- driver
> >>  |
> >>  crossroads -- semaphore
> >>
> >>
> >>>  Sebastian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > Well said Igor! And which place for that wiring to happen is better
than
> the one with a bird's eye? That's why parents wire children's events.
> >
> >
> But from the outset, I said that the Parents are generic containers,
> PRPages which components embedded. So they have no idea what their
> children are or what events need to be wired for a specifc child.
> 
> To use a "Nurturing analog" from "Living the The Life Model" book.
> 
> We progress through stages.... Infant -> Child -> Adolescent ->  Adult
> -> Parent -> Elder
> 
> Lessons we need to learn as we grow up include...
> 
> Infants need to be able to learn to receive from their parents.
> Children need to learn to articulate their needs.
> Adolescents learn to look after themselves.
> Parents learn to look after others as well as themselves.
> Elders learn to nurture communities in which all of the above happen.
> 
> Our "child" components are stuck at the Infant level.
> 
> Parents are only able to help children to the extent that a child can
> articulate its needs and at the moment I cant see any way of doing
that.
> without the child knowing who the parent is
> 
> regards
> 
> Keith
> 
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