[sldev] Various questions on the viewer.

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:29 -0700, Richard Nelson wrote:
> 2. We are currently redesigning and replacing many of our existing  
> callbacks/observers with one or more flexible idioms.  One of the  
> requirements is allowing for flexible interfaces from the Observed (not  
> just a bitmask) and easy binding of user data.  However, I think this is a  
> case of a hammer making everything look like nails.  The Observer pattern  
> is very useful but when used in the place of clear functional dependencies  
> can make the code harder to understand and debug, as I've seen in other  
> codebases.

Would libsigc++ be any help here? (As opposed to reinventing more
wheels...)

http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/

Fairly widely used, LGPL licensed. I've got some code of my own I really
need to port over to it...
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