[Newbies] dependency mechanism

[Hilaire Fernandes]

What about using the methods: #triggerEvent:with: and #when:send:to:

obj when: #price send: #updatePrice: to: anObject2

obj triggerEvent: #price with: oldPrice

where

Object2>>updatePrice: aPrice

Hilaire

Chris Kassopulo a écrit :
> Greetings,
> 
> The basic dependency example from "Smalltalk By Example" uses
> Visualworks changed:with and update:with:from: methods like this:
> 
> price: aPrice 
> | oldPrice |
> oldPrice := self price.
> price := aPrice.
> self changed: #price with: oldPrice
> 
> update: aSymbol with: oldPrice from: aStock
>     (aSymbol == #price)  ifTrue:
>         [Transcript
>             cr; show: thisContext; tab; show: aSymbol; tab;
>             nextPutAll: 'Price changed from: '; show: oldPrice; tab; 
>             nextPutAll: 'To: '; show: aStock price; flush]
> 
> The problem is that Squeak only implements update:with: so the
> aStock price messaging doesn't work.  My solution was to follow
> VW's implementation by making the following changes:
> 
> Modified the changed:with: method to include from:.
> 
> changed: anAspect with: anObject
> self dependents do: [:aDependent | aDependent update: anAspect with:
> anObject from: self]
> 
> Added an update:with:from: method.
> 
> update: anAspect with: anObject from: aSender
> ^ self update: anAspect with: anObject
> 
> It took a while to see the problem and without looking at VW,
> I never would have been able to figure a way.  Is my fix
> reasonable?
> 
> VW also implements expressInterestIn:for:sendBack: and
> onChangeSend:to: methods.  Anyone familiar with them and care to
> provide pointers on the possibility of implementing something
> similar in Squeak?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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