[newbie][q] authoringPrototype X newStandAlone

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Jul 1 20:18:16 UTC 2002


On Monday 01 July 2002 12:02 pm, Leo Burd wrote:

> I'm having a hard time trying to understand the difference between
> authoringPrototype and newStandAlone.  Do I need both of them in my
> code?  Would anybody help me out?

If you want to work with the Objects tool, you need 
descriptionForPartsBin and newStandAlone, and/or 
supplementaryPartsDescriptions. See the class comment on ObjectsTool. 
initializeForStandAlone is also used for the "sample instance" menu 
choice from browsers if you have a descriptionForPartsBin.

I think you can skip authoringPrototype; it appears to just be used 
for building some of the standard flaps. The default implementation 
in Morph is to do a "new", but I don't think you'll find it called on 
your own code.

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