Next steps for MCP?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon May 26 14:08:57 UTC 2003


On Monday 26 May 2003 06:20 am, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Someone care to submit a patch? MCP, Ned, anyone?

I'm really tied up for the next 2 weeks; in fact I'll be off list 
through the 31st.

> Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 May 2003 04:19 am, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> > > I wonder if you find this interesting - the class category
> > > Morphic-Experimental sounds to me unessential to Morphic. But
> > > looking at the reference graph using SpT, I see that actually,
> > > Morphic-Kernel does depend on it in a few ways. The
> > > *PropertiesMorph classes are referenced by Morph. This requires
> > > some sleuthing as to whether the *PropertyMorphs should
> > > actually be in the Squeak core (in which case, they should be
> > > moved out of the category *Experimental), or that they should
> > > be made somehow optional extensions, which would require some
> > > design solution.
> >
> > The AlignmentMorphBob1 is something that Bob Arning wrote and
> > then used as a subclass for a lot of UI stuff that ended up in
> > experimental, including the remote etoy stuff, nebraska, thread
> > navigation, etc.
> >
> > However, it is also used for the GenericPropertiesMorph and its
> > subclasses; these are used by the properties Halo handle.
> >
> > I would probably consider basing the GenericPropertiesMorph on
> > AlignmentMorph or BorderedMorph, and copy the necessary methods
> > from AMBob1 into it.
> >
> > Likewise, StretchyImageMorph probably doesn't need to be based on
> > AMBob1.
> >
> > DrawErrorMorph appears to be something that was used in testing
> > and could be removed.
> >
> > I have found ShowEmptyTextMorph or something like it to be
> > useful, though the choice of how to display empty text should
> > probably be moved to TextMorph.
> >
> > --
> > Ned Konz
> > http://bike-nomad.com
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