Rapid Application Development with Mozilla™

9.9. Hands On: Command Design

To date, the NoteTaker example has relied on a simple action() function to implement all the tasks that need scripting. NoteTaker is a small project and doesn't require heavy engineering, but for the sake of experience we use this session to wrap those actions up in commands. In order to do this, we need to

1.	Design the commands.
2.	Implement the commands.
3.	Install the command implementations.
4.	Invoke commands from wherever they are needed.

The first step is design. The NoteTaker tool has fixed functionality, so there is a fixed and known list of commands. Furthermore, none of the NoteTaker commands can be disabled. Together, these two statements mean that the controllers that handle the commands won't ever change ...