No SystemWindow (was Re: Making Squeak more accessible and used - reversing the trend)

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Sun Feb 11 21:48:41 UTC 2007


Bert Freudenberg skrev:
> On Feb 4, 2007, at 1:43 , Bill Schwab wrote:
>> J.J., FWIW, the few end user apps I have seen written in Squeak all use
>> SystemWindow for their top-level window.  The result is one main window
>> with a Squeak-generated title bar inside the VM's main window - that's
>> wrong from a user's perspective.
>
> I never could understand why Squeak developers do this. It's so easy 
> to get rid of SystemWindows.
>
> Try this: In a fresh image, get the halo on the PluggableText in the 
> Welcome window. Take it out with the black handle. Then, get the halo 
> for the World, set its layout to proportional. Done. You have the 
> former SystemWindow contents filling the whole Squeak window. Adapts 
> to resizing, too.
>
> - Bert -
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I think it fear of instance based development. Most people/developers 
prefer to have class side initialization. Which is kind of unnecessary 
with a image.
Karl



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