[Newbies] Book morph UI question

[John-Reed Maffeo]

Yoshiki,

Thanks for your prompt reply! I don't understand the inner workings of
fonts in Squeak but am happy to know that my guess was correct.

- jrm

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 1:54 PM, John-Reed Maffeo <jrmaffeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello Vaidotas,
> >
> > You will have to ask the developer (yo 1/14/2005 19:25). It is defined
> this
> > way in the method #fullControlSpecs in the class #BooklikeMorph. It is
> the
> > #ByteString value 179.I guess that it is an artifact of some changes that
> > have been made over the years.
>
> Traditionally BookMorph title bar uses ◊, since when the internal
> encoding of the system was MacRoman.  The character is called
> "Lozenge".
>
> When we changed the internal encoding to Unicode and I remember hand
> editing some of the fonts.  I can't really remember what was going on.
> It is a bit funky that the code point is 179 yet showing Lozenge (i.e.
> the Accuny font has that glyphs at 179).  From 3.8 and later versions,
> the code was carried over but now the default font uses Latin-1
> encoding, and code point 179 is shown ad upper script three.
>
> >
> > I am still learning Squeak. I discovered this by searching for the
> string in
> > the control's help bubble, 'More Controls'.
> >
> > Note: On Win 7 the behavior is different than it it on Mac OS! On Win the
> > character changes when I mouse it, On Mac, it does not.
> >
> > Hopes this helps!
> >
> > jrm
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> Why 'more controls' button in the Book morph has '3' as its title?
> >> regards,
> >> Vaidotas
> >>
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