[Moose-dev] Re: Glamour

Hi Benjamin, Great, it looks like you are getting into the details :). Before going forward, please read the short design description: http://www.themoosebook.org/book/internals/glamour/architecture To get an idea of how a browser looks like inside, we also use a special notation: http://www.themoosebook.org/book/internals/glamour/sketching Transmissions connect ports of panes. When you have #one->#selectionPath, you are basically specifying that we refer to the #selectionPath port from the #one port. This is a shortcut that will be deprecated in the future. You will have to explicitly say #to:port:. When you have "transmit to: #one", you transmit to the default input port of a pane which is named #entity. When you have "transmit from: #one", you transmit to the default output port of a pane which is named #selection. The ports can be named in any way you want. You can think of them as instance variables of a pane. It is then up to you to connect the ports correctly. Some of the presentations know how to populate some ports by default. For example: - a list will populate the #selection port with the item selected in the ui - a tree will populate the #selectionPath with a collection holding the items from the selected item to the root of the tree I hope this helps. Please continue to ask questions :) Cheers, Doru On 3 Nov 2010, at 12:59, Benjamin wrote: -- www.tudorgirba.com "We cannot reach the flow of things unless we let go."