...except that the #preserveTrash preference needs to be set to true 
for this to happen.  And I think the default setting of 
#preserveTrash when 3.0 went out the door at the beginning of the 
year may have been *false*, and I believe that this is also the case 
for the plug-in image, for which, especially, *surely* it should be 
set to true.  Something that slipped through the cracks.

  -- Scott

At 10:56 AM -0800 11/5/01, Alan Kay wrote:
>Actually Karl, when you delete an instance it just goes in the 
>trashcan and is saved. You have to clear the trash before it is 
>really gone.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan
>
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>At 6:41 PM +0100 11/5/01, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>Ed Heil wrote:
>>
>>>  This isn't really quite the Morphic way to do it is it?  I could have
>>>  just pulled together a Morph to use as the interface, without
>>>  necessarily having it produced by any method of my ComicsGrabber
>>>  whatsoever...   Then saved the Morph to a file and that would be the
>>>  user interface, not the result of methods called from a class, but
>>>  pure Morphs, created as Morphs, saved as Morphs.
>>>
>>>  Am I correct in believing that that is the optimal way to use Morphic,
>>>  that you don't create new classes unless you really are trying to
>>>  create something that is different in kind from what has gone before,
>>>  and that where possible instead of creating an application by means of
>>>  subclassing, you create it by assembling existing bits?
>>>
>>>  That's cool.  Is that a Self thing kinda?
>>
>>A lot of stuff can be acomplished just by executing
>>a piece of code in a workspace. I guess your whole
>>morph could be just that instead of putting it in a initialization 
>>method in a subclass.
>>
>>You could make a button that execute the workspace code
>>when pressed and store your program that way too.
>>
>>The good thing about using subclasses it that you have
>>some _powerfull_ tools to help you on the way.
>>Also the code is stored in the image for easy reuse.
>>
>>One problem with instance programming is that
>>when you delete the instance, it's gone.
>>Remember to save your work.
>>
>>If you want to test the etoy scripting tools you
>>probably have to use it in the textual mode because
>>there are no tiles to do http/networking as far as I know.
>>
>>Karl
>
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