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I continued working on the core UI for MailDrop 2.0 today. I added outlets to some more checkboxes and text fields and made them undoable. With a strong MVC background, "undo" is a fairly easy but - repeat after me - T E D I O U S task. I have about fourteen thousand lines of code (well, okay, about 500) of pure getter/setter/UI-updater code.

Because we want to be very, very AppleScriptable in the end, I'm clinging to MVC as if it was a hot babe and I was Rob Cesternino. What's funny is that I noticed that, upon entering a string in a text field, the following occurs:

1. The action of a text field is setSomeValue: (generic name used here), a "setter" of sorts.
2. A string comparison takes place so that you can't add infinite instances of the same string to the undo stack. This calls a value "get" accessor in the model to check the current string and compare it to the UI string (the one just entered).
3. The setSomeValue: calls a setValue: method in my model.
4. The model posts a notification to the window to update its UI.
5. The window "updateUI" method calls the same value "get" method in the model to make sure it sets the text field to the proper value.

Overkill? Actually, no. Amusing? Undoubtedly. But again: T E D I O U S. 🙂

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