[Seaside] Re: Menu component - communicating with root component
Steve Aldred
aldreds at velocitynet.com.au
Sun Apr 20 03:53:07 UTC 2008
Squeaker wrote:
> ...
> Assume a situation where you have a parent (aMenu) that had multiple
> children (like MenuItems in a menu) and each child can announce
> ItemClicked. Wouldn't the parent code end up looking a huge case
> statement when trying to figure out which child was clicked?
> ...
That's the point of announcements, they are an instance of a class and
carry whatever data you desire. If you need the instance of the menu
item in the announcement then put it there.
I'd be inclined to then put the behaviour you want on the menu items
themselves and the receiver of the announcement just asks the
announcement item to process the necessary data. The menu item doesn't
know about the data per se, it just holds the behavior to apply to the
data when the behavior method gets invoked with the data as an argument.
HTH
Steve
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