[Rant] Shrinking problems and rampant interdependencies

Henrik Gedenryd Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se
Sun Jul 29 10:24:46 UTC 2001


Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Actually I decided to (ab)use Morph for this purpose, since it seemed to
> me that storing the icons for halos etc has very little to do with any
> scripting system.
>> 
>> Probably, the only message ever sent to ScriptingSystem by any
>> objects remaining in your stripped-down system is #formAtKey:.
> ...and it seems like some helpString related bits here and there.

Tim, I once did this but alas threw the code away by mistake. I put the code
on the class side of ImageMorph (or SketchMorph, can't remember which) since
this is the class that uses the bitmaps anyway.  I think that makes slightly
more sense than to use Morph.

Anyway, my point is that your changes are direly needed by anyone who wants
a nicely modular image (eg. someone who wants to shrink it). Right now the
eToys have infested standard Morphic in several ways that aren't pretty. I
therefore stronlgy recommend that this should go into the standard image
(preferrably with the code moved to ImageMorph or whichever it was ;-)

Henrik






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