Re: OT: Global Methods

[Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>]

> On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 04:12 PM, Chris Little wrote:
>
> > on 10/25/02 4:45 PM, john roberts at jarobe01 at athena dot louisville dot edu 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > on 10/25/02 4:10 PM, Chris Willis at rb-dr at macest dot com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Where is the best place to store global methods - a module or the
> > > > application class? Is one more suitable than the other? The only difference
> > > > I currently see is when a method is in the application class, it needs
> > > > "appclassname." appended to the start of the line. I'm sure there's
> > > > differences deep down in the runtime code...would someone like to enlighten
> > > > me?
> > > Storing them in one or more modules make them easier to incorporate into
> > > other projects.
> > They should be slightly faster to call as well since RB doesn't have to get
> > the application object first.
> >
> > Chris
> This seems to be going one way. Is there any reason not to put 
> something in a module?
The only methods and properties I put in my application class are 
those relating to Global Menu items and the opening and closing of 
the program. Everything else goes into the individual windows or 
modules that will be accessed by more than one window. This helps 
keep most things object oriented which modules are not.
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