using morphs as data

Joshua Gargus gargus at cs.ualberta.ca
Mon Apr 17 01:16:14 UTC 2000


Hi there,

In my recent experimenting with my organizer, I have been storing a fair bit
of information as Morphic objects (books, sketchs, animations, etc.)
When Morphic is revamped, will these existing morphs be usable in the new 
version, or will there be an OldMorphic/NewMorphic barrier akin to the
MVC/Morphic barrier we have in the current image?

If the latter is the case, how difficult do you anticipate that it would be
to write code to convert from one format to the other?  

On a related topic, does anyone have any thoughts about storing morphs as
data rather than as a View on data?  Using them as the data itself is 
certainly appealing, simply because of the sheer flexibility and 
expressiveness of the medium.  Are there any reasons why you would want
to use a model-view separation instead?

Thank you for considering these questions,
Joshua
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