| Re: Object widget? [message #80585] |
Sat, 23 June 2012 05:11  |
ben.bighair
Messages: 221
Registered: April 2007
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On Friday, June 22, 2012 6:38:08 PM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
> Hi gang, I have a conceptual question. I've been developing a GUI to do some processing and modeling of astronomical images for a while now, which has gotten too "spaghettified" for my taste and so it's time for an overhaul. Since I'm about to rewrite ~10,000 lines of code to clean up all sorts of "features", I wanted to know what the virtues of writing this code as an object?
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> Thanks!
> Russell
Hi,
There are a number of great resources on this topic listed here http://www.idlcoyote.com/ including endless articles, references to books and examples.
You can't go wrong spending some time there, and the virtues are too numerous to list. How about an analogy? Oop is to widget programming as novocaine is to dentistry.
I'm surprised that you got 10K lines of a GUI system without having bumped into the site before.
Cheers,
Ben
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| Re: Object widget? [message #80698 is a reply to message #80585] |
Mon, 25 June 2012 10:49  |
Russell Ryan
Messages: 122
Registered: May 2012
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On Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:11:56 AM UTC-4, ben.bighair wrote:
> On Friday, June 22, 2012 6:38:08 PM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
>> Hi gang, I have a conceptual question. I've been developing a GUI to do some processing and modeling of astronomical images for a while now, which has gotten too "spaghettified" for my taste and so it's time for an overhaul. Since I'm about to rewrite ~10,000 lines of code to clean up all sorts of "features", I wanted to know what the virtues of writing this code as an object?
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>> Thanks!
>> Russell
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> Hi,
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> There are a number of great resources on this topic listed here http://www.idlcoyote.com/ including endless articles, references to books and examples.
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> You can't go wrong spending some time there, and the virtues are too numerous to list. How about an analogy? Oop is to widget programming as novocaine is to dentistry.
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> I'm surprised that you got 10K lines of a GUI system without having bumped into the site before.
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> Cheers,
> Ben
Hi Ben,
I am very familiar with the Fanning's library and website. But I was hoping someone could describe the virtues of the OOP for widgets/GUIs. I'm rewriting the code anyway, and so thought to do it in OOP --- provided the reasons are better than simple intellectual curiosity.
russell
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