Jay Carlson [mailto:nop at nop.com] writes:

> I'm not using Morphic.  Until I can get this stupid ~2.2M transfer limit
> nailed, I don't have any images I can show off---and you can't point and
> laugh until then :-)

Well, I finally managed to shrink a Morphic-containing image below 2.5M and
got it transferred.

So now I'm pointing at my Helio and laughing....

First of all, it really is slow.  No, really.  Multiple seconds between
tapping the screen and the world menu coming up.  Of course, I've released
the pen by then, and it all goes away and I have to repeat.  I guess I
should implement dirty regions in ioShowDisplay() now, but even then I see
over a hundred calls to ioShowDisplay() as the menu comes up :-(  Is update
coalescing/delaying mandatory for VMs planning to run Morphic?

Second, unlike MVC, Morphic doesn't try to fit its menus to screen size.
And browsers are totally busted unless they get enough room to open.  Go
ahead, resize a morphic world to like 160x160 and then open a browser, try
it....

Third, you really do need more than the red button to live in Morphic and I
don't have enough  modifiers yet.

> Anyway, consider this another request for the new shrunken Morphic-like UI
> replacement mentioned in the OOPSLA reports.  I could really use it.

:-)

Jay