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

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jul 13 22:00:29 UTC 2007


On Jul 13, 2007, at 23:29 , Avi Bryant wrote:

> On 7/13/07, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>> Laslty I'll note Morphic was rewritten over in
>>
>> http://scratch.mit.edu/
>>
>> I believe under the grant rules the source should be available,
>> surprised  no-one has gone digging to
>> see if that has a better Morphic to build on?
>
> In http://news.squeak.org/2007/01/23/scratching-the-surface/ John said
> that "We plan to make source code available by mid-2007 under the MIT
> License so that others can experiment with extensions and variations."
>
> In early versions of Scratch it was possible to get a debugger in some
> situations and from there get to the full development environment,
> which looked like a pretty standard (but snappy) Morphic circa Squeak
> 2.2 or so.  I haven't tried doing that with a recent release...

I seriously doubt that John did major changes to Morphic in Scratch.  
Simplest would be to ask him, of course.

- Bert -





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