SelectCase

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Wed Jan 4 20:08:05 UTC 2006


Chris Muller wrote:

>A key-command handler method.
>
>  keyPressed caseOf:
>    {[$c]->[self copy].
>    [$x]->[self cut].
>    [$v]->[self paste]}
>
>What's the best way other than case statement to map
>keyPressed to the desired action?
>  
>
The explicit Dictionary approach might be easiest, and if the dictionary 
is not built on the fly in te method which interprets key characters but 
during initialization, there are opportunities for plug-ins to add their 
key->action associations.
An even better option might be something like Command objects which know 
their appropriate action, their keyboard shortcut and their label, icon 
and position in the menu structure of your application. Then you would 
have just one big bag of Commands, and the keyboard handler can just 
grab the right one out of it, the menu builder can use it to build the 
menu and to interpret menu actions, etc.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin

Recommended reading: "Domain-Driven Design" by Eric Evans. Questions 
such as how a case statement should be written become really secondary.



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