About Zurgle

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Mon May 20 13:20:31 UTC 2002


One other thing to consider (for the future perhaps).  It seems to me
that the morphic halos and window frames have a lot in common.  Maybe
there's an opportunity to bring them into the same framework.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Andreas Raab
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 7:42 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: About Zurgle
> 
> 
> Stephane,
> 
> Just briefly:
> 
> > Does a graphics or window guru can assess if these changes
> > would be worth to be integrated?
> 
> I share Jim's opinion that a bit more radical approach would 
> actually have been useful. The changes add quite a bit of 
> complexity to SystemWindow in such that they duplicate 
> various responsibilities and (at least by my glancing over 
> it) it looks like those shouldn't even be present in 
> SystemWindow at all if a window frame handles them.
> 
> So, Jim, are you up to a little more agressive refactoring of 
> those?! Basically, taking out all the stuff that should be 
> handled by the window frame into the window frame and only 
> leave a few high-level protocols in SystemWindow itself?!
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
> 
> 




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