GUI, OOP and a fileserver
Not a whole lot done today either. I've spent the majority of the day trying to get my old fileserver to behave. Ended up with me getting a "new" box that was phased out from work and I've spent the rest of the day installing W2k3 Server on it. It hasn't been pretty though with malfunctioning system drives and other less than fun issues. Blah.

Still, in between the profanity and the waiting I have been planning out the GUI for the application in my head. Not that I'm running an application in my head... You know what I mean. As one of my hobbies are interior decorating I have no problems visualizing the GUI in my head, down to the tabs and the look of the interface buttons.

No, the real fun starts when I try to convert this into something resembling Object Oriented Programming. Since I am incorporating pretty elaborated search functions methods, that grabs all its data from the SQL server, into the GUI, do I need to inherit the GUI classes from some SQL class (or object)? Or is it enough if I put the search functions methods in another class, in another namespace and then call upon this object / class / method in my GUI methods?

Brain. Hurts.

I'm going to spend some more time on this damn server and then I'll go to bed and dream of GUIs and OOP.
- posted by Martin @ 22:37