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

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Feb 12 12:21:09 UTC 2007


On Feb 12, 2007, at 13:06 , Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

>> Bert Freudenberg skrev:
>>> 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.
>
>
> I just did it on a 3.9final image: it looks ok but the text does  
> not respond right to mouse events. instead the World does.

Works for me. I can select text, or get the context menu.

Anyway, this is just to show that there is *no* need to put  
everything into a SystemWindow. It's just that most folks do this  
without even thinking about it.

- Bert -





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