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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:27:54+00:00

I have a class diagram (Customer) with some private and public attributes as well

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I have a class diagram (“Customer”) with some private and public attributes as well as some operations. Now I want to model a dialog (GUI) for editing this customer. The window represents the class Customer and some drop downs and checkboxes the attributes. The operations (“save”, “refresh”) are represented by buttons.

Design Question: Do I design my GUI dialog only for editing public attributes or also for editing private attributes?

(This is a pure object-oriented design question, there is no implementation.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    The GUI should only interface with the class via public methods, not attributes, and never private members.

    Generally it’s a good idea to separate the GUI from the Model. The Model-View-Controller design pattern is a common, tried and true approach.

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