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Building a Controller

Designing and Implementing a Data-Entry Controller Class

Issue: 16.6 (November/December 2018)
Author: JC Cruz
Author Bio: JC is a freelance writer based in British Columbia. He is a regular contributor to MacTech Magazine and Dr Dobb's Journal. Away from the writing pile, JC spends quality time with his nephew, as a proper uncle should.
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Up to now, I built my controllers as code modules. But a module is not an object. It "violates" the MVC design paradigm and it lacks the many advantages that come from a real object. It is high time I correct this.

In today's article, I shall show how I designed a data-entry controller. I shall describe the three subclasses that are the basis for that controller, describe how I implement the controller and how it compares to the original module.

The revised version of the FooHealth demo project (Mk2) is available from the magazine's website.

Readers must have a working knowledge of Xojo and object-oriented design.

The MVC Paradigm, Revisited

As I have often stated in previous articles, I designed and developed the personal health solution, FooHealth, according to the model-view-controller (MVC) paradigm (Figure 1). The models archive, manages and transforms the user-patients' health data. The views present the data and interact with user-patients. And the controllers regulate the flow of data between models and views, or between models and other controllers.

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