Question

I’m asking this because I really don’t know where I should handle events of my dynamically created window.

When someone clicks on a desktop icon, the window (if it doesn’t exist) will be dynamically created. Should I create a controller when creating the window and hook to it? If yes, how?

Here you can read different approaches I’ve thought about:

1. Create a controller that will instanciate the Window (as its view), I will handle everything there
2. Create the window only and hook everything in my taskbar controller (which is where the window is created). In this case, the Taskbar controller will become very big.
3. Pre-create all window controllers and eventually windows too and hide them (when page is ready). Then just show/hide them, so I will have “static” references to all controllers with getController in Application

Which approach should I use?

Edit 1:
I’m trying to dynamically instanciate (and reference it through another controller) a controller. I’m having hard time expecially in referencing it. Any suggestion on how it should be done?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by myself: I preinstanciate the controller as I do with all controllers, by inserting them in Application controllers array. After this, I instanciate the view on that controller when a method is called, then I simply use refs to access this view.

The method is quite clean and using refs feel so good. Obviusly the controller has a method hasWindow which checks if the controller view has been created already.