Antwort: Re: [Newbies] closing/deleting a morph and dependents

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

El 6/5/07 7:56 AM, "Dietmar Schielke" <Dietmar.Schielke at data-experts.de>
escribió:

> Hi Edgar, 
> 
> thanks for your answer :-)
> I will have to describe it better.
> 
> Yes my morph and its submorphs disappear correctly when I close/delete it.
> 
> My problem is, that the submorphs need to do some clean up (unregister as
> dependents from the domain objects)  when they disapear from the world . I
> tried to overwrite delete in my submorphs, but delete was not called on my
> submorphs when i closed/deleted my GUI.
> 
> Here is a short sketch of my classes:
> 
> I have a class Device (with attributes name, ip-Adress, port) which holds
> subdevices (objects of class Subdevice with attributes like name, description,
> state..) 
> 
> To view and edit Devices with their subdevices i made a DeviceMorph (for
> viewing/editing the "primitive" attributes of Device) and a SubdeviceMorph
> (for the SubDevices). Devicemorphs hold Subdevicemorphs as submorphs.
> Subdevicemorphs register themself as dependent on an Subdevice object so they
> get infomed when the  Subdevice changes it's state (just the squeak standard
> change notification mechanics). This works fine. I can open several
> DeviceMorphs for the same Device and a change on the device or its subdevices
> via one of the openDevice Morphs ist instantly displayed on all open
> DeviceMorphs for that device.
> 
> When i close one of the DeviceMorphs observing my Device i need to unregister
> its SubDeviceMorphs from the SubDivices they have observed, because they are
> no longer visible and do not need the change notifications of their SubDevice
> anymore and because the reference from my SubDevice to my (now unvisible)
> SubDeviceMorph prevents the SubDeviceMorph from being garbage collected.
> 
> Btw. I copied this design from the morphic counter example on
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/795. The difference between the counter example
> an my problem is, that my domain objects live more independent of the GUI.
> 
> I have seen that morphs can have a model, but i have no idea how to use it.
> 
> Thanks again, 
> 
> Dietmar 

I understand better now.
It's really a good start point for doing a tutorial.
I don't have time as 3.10 monopolize all I get, try to find some student for
do it.

In the time, I have my very old tutorial
http://ar.geocities.com/edgardec2001/LogicCircus1.html
see pict of finished project at:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5991

Is my bad use of  Fabrik Dan idea  for connecting and passing actions
between morphic objects.

If think this could be useful , I have ready to load in any Squeak , could
send or put somewhere.

Edgar