Hello,
What is the right way to intercommunicate two or more independent classes in Juce?
If my classes knows other classes pointers and types, then I am using Component::postCommandMessage() and
Component::handleCommandMessage(), and it works.
If not, I see that there are Message and MessageListener classes, but I don't know how to use them to exchange messages from one class to other.
Should I use ActionBroadcaster and ActionListener instead? How?
Thanks
What type of communication do you want to do? Is it across threads? Is it important to keep coupling to a minimum? The reason I ask, is that commuicating between 'classes' in code is a simple process of the class having knowledge of the class (compile time) it wants to call, and a pointer to the actual instantiation (runtime).
I would like to send a message/event from a ToolbarButton to the MainComponent where the toolbar that contains that button is instanced.
From the button I can get the MainComponent pointer with findChildWithID method, but I think it is not a nice way because it forces me to make an include of MainComponent from my ToolbarItemFactory and make its methods public.
So I am looking for a beeter way.
MainComponent ---> Toolbar ---> ToolbarItemFactory ---> ToolbarButton -->event
In MainComponent I would have an event handler to receive the ToolbarButton's event.
may be an ActionBroadcaster?
