Re: Bonobo questions

[Andrew Sobala <andrew sobala net>]

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 15:46, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 16:03, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > My question is, if you are writing an app that manipulates a file with
> > multiple ways of viewing/manipulating that file's information, how do
> > you have the multiple bonobo components accessing the same file at the
> > same time?
> 
> 	Well currently, you might have a ControlFactory that would provide
> multiple views of the data, and you'd feed the data once into the
> factory via a stream (perhaps).
> 
> 	The problem with having a unique object per file, is that we prefer to
> stream files rather than pass URIs to them around - and even comparing 2
> URIs for equivalence is a near impossibility in a mixed case
> sensitivity, symbolically-linked world so ...
> 
> 	Does that help ?

Thanks Michael, I think I get it now.

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Andrew

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