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10 | 10 | ## Overview
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12 | 12 | This model-view-viewmodel framework is intended for large Qt based scientific
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| -applications written in C++. The Project was created as a playground toward GUI |
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| -refactoring of [BornAgain project](https://www.bornagainproject.org). |
| 13 | +applications written in C++. The Project was created as a refactoring |
| 14 | +playground, and it was never used for production. |
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16 | 16 | Main features of the framework are:
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138 | 138 | Third library, `libmmv_view.so`, contains few widgets for plotting and property
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139 | 139 | editing.
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| -## Size of the framework |
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| -+ 20k loc of libraries (`libmvvm_model.so`, `libmmv_viewmodel.so` and `libmmv_view.so`) |
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| -+ 15k loc of tests |
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| -+ 10k of user examples |
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147 | 141 | ## Disclaimer and afterword
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| -The library is intended for large GUI applications. The definition of `large` is |
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| -quite arbitrary and means something in the range 20k - 200k lines of code. The |
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| -main logic here is that using the additional library for smaller Qt applications |
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| -is redundant, Qt has everything that may be required. If a small GUI becomes messy |
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| -with time, it can always be refactored or even rewritten from scratch. |
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| -However, when the number of views to show the same data is getting large, and |
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| -the GUI enters the range 20k–200k, this is where a given library might help in |
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| -proper separation of data, logic, and UI. When the GUI grows even further, well, |
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| -developers of such large GUI know already what they need and probably have |
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| -The project is under active development. |
| 143 | +The library is intended for large GUI applications. The definition of `large` is quite |
| 144 | +arbitrary and means something in the range 20k - 200k lines of code. The main logic here |
| 145 | +is that using the additional library for smaller Qt applications is redundant, Qt has |
| 146 | +everything that may be required. If a small GUI becomes messy with time, it can always |
| 147 | +be refactored or even rewritten from scratch. |
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| 149 | +However, when the number of views to show the same data is getting large, and the GUI |
| 150 | +enters the range 20k–200k, this is where a given library might help in the proper |
| 151 | +separation of data, logic, and UI. When the GUI grows even further, well, developers |
| 152 | +of such a large GUI know already what they need and probably have already implemented |
| 153 | +similar machinery. |
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| 155 | +Please note, that the project is not actively maintained anymore. The author can't promise |
| 156 | +any timely reaction to user requests and bug reports. |
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