Hi John,
Where do you plan to publish your paper?

>Hi Mark ----
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>>So, does how will your UI get a value of an object property?
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>Well, usually just lcCharVal=Obj.CharProperty. Since we have Access and Assign now and since I have been convinced they are proper by some OOP standards (in a thread here not long ago) and since Access methods can control what is passed back to the UI.....no reason not to.
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>The trick here, of course, is to have Alert behavior at the superclass level for non-visual objects and *plan* for static coupling with those constructs within the application at the instance level.
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>So....in my app, if I have a business or functional object that is called, I *know* that it will have the Alerts collection and other supporting features just as I know that it'll have Init, Destroy, etc...
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>Again, this relates to a larger pattern concept I have been working on for a bit and have almost finished writing a paper on. Stay tuned :-)