duplicate inspector flaw

Gary McGovern zeppy at australia.edu
Wed Oct 22 17:37:10 UTC 2003


Alright, I'm probably just thinking about how I would have liked the
duplicate to work on an inspector. In what circumstance should the
inspector duplicate spot be used ? I've never had the need for it other
than the way I tried.

Thanks
Gary

>goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>
>> "Gary McGovern" <zeppy at australia.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>>Thanks Bert,
>>>I have look a bit more at that. Should the green spot have done what I
>>>wanted or expected ?
>>>Gary
>> 
>> Since the green duplicate icon does a generic operation (I think) this
>> is simply the result. Not sure if we want to have polymorphic behavior
>> here - it may just confuse.
>
>My opinion: SystemWindows are not designed to be operated from the halo, 
>but are actually Views that share the model with Squeak's older UI 
>paradigm, MVC. They are special in some other ways (which we may or may 
>not call unfortunate). Anyway, it is not unexpected that they do not 
>behave as one might expect from "ordinary" morphs.
>
>-- 
>    Bert
>
>
>






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