lessphic? may be a future for morphic

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Feb 1 01:35:27 UTC 2008


Igor Stasenko wrote:
> And some notes about input.
> Again, morphic should not assume that there are standard input devices
> , like keyboard and mouse, it's should be able to interact with any
> available input devices.
> For this, i think, we should think twice on how introduce different
> events in future morphic system.
>
> For instance, what is the point in having #handlesMouseDown: ,
> #keyDown: methods, when there is no mouse/keyboard on platform (assume
> i run squeak on touchpad)?
>
> These layers should be detached from each other, i think, and morphs
> should react on more abstract (or generalised) events.
>
>   
I still haven't thought much about this, but I fully agree. If you have 
further ideas on this, I'd like to know.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich




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