MFC Doc / View Architecture vs. Alternatives

[James Pullicino]

Its always best to stick as much as possible to MFC to create doc/view apps, especially if it meets your needs. This is becuase there are many resources available for MFC programs, whereas there are considerably less for third-party frameworks.

[George]

Sure - it's a new, revolutionary model called Spaghetti / Code. Basically you stick to global variables and copy-paste as much code as you possibly can (so called re-use code). ;)

[Neville Franks]

I'm not aware of any alternatives to MFC's Doc/View in the Windows world, other than Stingrays MVC, which I would be very reluctant to use. The MVC model is defintely the way to go but its a pity that MFC left out the Controller. CView derived classes can also be difficult to reuse, for example in docked dialog bars. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows http://www.getsoft.com

[Francisco Viella]

Sometime ago I heard about IBM having the doc/view/controller model implemented in their Visual Age for OS/2. Since now there is a Visual Age working in Windows, I presume there will be a doc/view/controller too.

[Christian Skovdal Andersen]

I do not think Stingray is free at all. Actually it is goddamn expensive. Something like $10K+ when my company bought it some years ago. Not really worth the money, to be honest :-( Christian Skovdal Andersen

[Tomasz Sowinski]

> Not really worth the money, to be honest I had good experience with Stingray's Objective Grid. The rest of the Stingray suite... well, it simply stinks. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com.pl

[Erik Funkenbusch]

I didn't say all of Stingray's code was free, just the Stingray Foundation Classes. This may have changed since RW bought them.. so i'll take a look.

[CodeGuy]

I'm wondering if the original question was referring to architectures akin to Doc/View, or something completely different from Doc/View, like a Blackboard design pattern?

[Aza]

The MVC. For larger projects (> 50000 lines) there is also the StateMaster pattern. Too much overhead on smaller projects though. Johannes

[Stephen Kellett]

Wow! Don't hold back on your opinion there Tomasz. :-) Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

[realJSOP]

And it doesn't help when their support sucks as bad as it does.