Better morphic architecture? (was: Re: Changing window size)

sig siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 20:45:16 UTC 2007


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> tR> complained for *years* about how utterly essential  host windows are
> tR> and yet in the nearly three years since we wrote Ffenestri there has
> tR> been..... <crickets>....
>
> It seems some of those "You guys" will have to change the whole morphic
> drawing, BitBlt whatever to paint on a HostWindow. Which looks like an
> awful lot of work. So I guess people having a need will do a bit in
> this area and maybe it sums up one day.
>
A good point! There is need to make substantial changes with
Morphic/Display infrastructure to support multiple OS windows/hardware
Displays/Desktops.
Current design implies that you having only single display surface and
i find this is very archaic approach.

> I'm happy to see that more and more people are on the way to use
> Squeak commercially and not only Seaside.
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net
>
>
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