Re: Programmers, how many pieces?

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 10/25/00 12:38 AM, Kevin Cullis at kevincu orci com wrote:

> Hi all you GNOME programmers,
> 
> When it comes to programming for GNOME, how many "pieces" of programs
> does a single action affect?  By that I mean, when I select from the
> File menu the Print command, how many "levels" or "pieces" of programs
> does that action affect?  The idea is to find out what's the maximum
> number that a programmer needs to be concerned about.

> The same goes for Menus, Toolbar, Statusbar, Content Area, Dialogs,
> Keys, Mouse, Drag and Drop.

There's no fixed or even close to fixed answer for this. The answer is
different for every program, and depends on the size of the program, how
well it is broken into modules, the definition of "level" or "piece", and
more.

John