Re: sodipodi ...

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> We do the same thing with Achtung, and it works like a charm. We have a
> model (called an AchObject) that contains things like the position on the
> canvas, the color of the object for certain objects, image data for
> images, text for text objects. Then the views render this data in whatever
> way they see fit. For example, the standard slide view draws all of the
> AchObjects as canvas items on the canvas. An outline view, though, will
> only check the text objects and then put the text into text boxes in that
> view.

This is a very good example of why your views might be a bit more
interesting than a default multi-view canvas.

Of course, having the suggested model-view proxy canvas would be a
useful thing to have, but I do not believe it would work outside of
quick hacks.

Just my feeling.