Thinking about redoing Morphic (Naked Objects and Morphic Wrappers ).

Daniel Joyce daniel.a.joyce at worldnet.att.net
Thu Feb 13 02:24:31 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 12 February 2003 05:52 pm, Andrew Berg wrote:

>
> It seems clear to me that any instance of a subclass of Collection
> should display as a list, that unary messages should display as
> buttons or menus, and that binary messages should show up as
> drag-n-drop targets, or perhaps in response to drag-n-drop events. 
> All of these are things that are probably pretty reasonable to do
> with existing Morphic subclasses.

It's funny, because Squeak had naked objects like 4 years ago. It's 
called "Morphic Wrappers" and it allows you plop down a 
interface/instance of any object in the system, and play with it. It's 
very very cool.

Very cool system, I'd like to see morphic move in this direction.

-Daniel



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