[Dev] Re: lastDynamicBlock

[Donn Denman]

John,

Glad to hear about this progress.  The only part that's confusing to me 
is the Globals.views[2] - the new detail view.  Can you give me another 
sentence about what that is?

The lastDynamicBlock is used to detect changes in the Active View, to 
decide if we need to rebuild the dynamic containers.  It's a cache of 
the lowest block in the tree (starting at the current Active View) 
that's a dynamic container.  If it changes, we need to rebuild the 
dynamicContainers.  I think it should belong to the mainViewRoot, since 
it detects changes in the view hierarchy that could apply across any of 
the Globals.views[].  Make sense?

- Donn


On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:25 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> Hi Donn:
>
> I'm eliminating Globals.mainView. Instead there's going to be a 
> Globals.mainViewRoot, which contains a tree of blocks for the current 
> application UI, as in the top most "trees of blocks" that we 
> discussed. Also there's going to be a Globals.views, which is a list 
> of nested trees of blocks, where each level has an event boundary. So 
> typically Globals.views[0] is the old Globals.mainView (but might 
> change as we change the top UI), Globals.views [1] is the new sidebar 
> summary detail view, Globals.views[2] is the new detail view -- hope 
> this isn't too confusing.
>
> So I've updated all the references to Globals.mainView except for 
> lastDynamicBlock. Can I move lastDynamicBlock to wxApplication, or 
> should it belong to mainViewRoot, or Globals.view[0], or something 
> else?
>
> John
>