MVC approach with C++

Question

I have been learning PHP MVC pattern and it is pretty cool. have almost finished app and I can see how mess you can make a code without good design. Now can MCV be applied to C++ apps? Where does Plugin manager/Plugins go if that is even possible?In model or controller? Thanks!

EDIT:

I mean C++ with GUI toolkit like QT/Wxwidgets/GTK+ Also Please help me on how to implement in C++. I have learned how to do it in PHP but as you know the two languages are somehow different!

EDIT2

http://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30983

Answer 1

how do you actually implement it in C++

• make classes in charge of rendering know nothing about application details. Call them SomethingView classes to make this point clear

• make your domain objects not know anything about visualization or user interaction. You don't need to call them Model, but you could

• create a set of classes in charge of running the role of Controllers: wire somehow dependencies to view and model classes via dependency injection if possible. example: CppInject. In any case, controller classes can know both about model and view classes, so the important part is this: all the coupling between view and model objects is isolated to the controllers.

• Also, this implies, that all imperative-style programming should be confined to the controller classes as well: view and model should be declarative-style. That means, they should offer services related to its role, but avoid direct interaction with other objects as side-effects

• It is not true you need to implement communication between controllers and the other components with event-style system, although such system is definitely helpful, but certainly not required

• surprise! the above applies to any language or framework, except of course languages that somehow already force MVC down your throat from the start, i.e: ruby on rails

Answer 2

MVC is a design pattern not a language specific construct, So yes you can apply it to C++ app as well.

MVC can and should be applied in any language so your User Interface is loosely coupled with the backend & either can be changed with minimum impact on each other.

The MVC pattern provides a clean separation of objects into:

• Models for maintaining data,
• Views for displaying all or a portion of the data, and
• Controllers for handling events that affect the model or view(s).

Answer 3

Yes, MVC can be applied in C++. For example, the MFC framework uses Document/View architecture which is essentially an MVC.

A design pattern isn't a library or class. It's a pattern. So you don't have a generic MVC library for C++.