"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

Object subclass:#Model

!

!Model class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1992 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    Models are things that are presented in views. Instances keep track of 

    which views are dependent of them and inform them of any changes.

    Actually the Model class is not really needed; since the dependency

    mechanism is inherited by Object, you can take any object as a model.

    However, instances of Model (and subclasses) keep the dependents locally

    in an instance variable; thus speeding up access a bit.

    Instance variables:

	dependents      Collection      those objects which depend on me.

					To save some storage, the dependent is

					kept directly here, IFF there os only one.

					Otherwise, a collection of dependents is

					held here.

"

! !

!Model methodsFor:'copying'!

postCopy

    "release dependents after copying"

    self dependents:nil

! !

!Model methodsFor:'dependents access'!

addDependent:anObject

    "make the argument, anObject be a dependent of the receiver"

    |deps|

!

dependents

    "return a Collection of dependents - nil if there is none"

    ^ dependents

!

dependents:aCollection

    "set the collection of dependents"

    dependents := aCollection

!

dependentsDo:aBlock

    "evaluate aBlock for all of my dependents"

    |deps|

    deps := dependents.

    deps notNil ifTrue:[

	deps isCollection ifTrue:[

	    deps do:aBlock

	] ifFalse:[

	    aBlock value:deps

	]

    ]

!

release

    dependents := nil

!

removeDependent:anObject

    "make the argument, anObject be independent of the receiver"

    |deps sz|

! !

!Model methodsFor:'drawing'!

displayOn:aGraphicsContext

    "display myself in aGraphicsContext"

    ^ self subclassResponsibility

!

displayOn:aGraphicsContext clippingBox:aRectangle

    "display a part of me in aGraphicsContext"

    ^ self subclassResponsibility

! !

!Model class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

! !