[squeak-dev] Alternatives to inform:
stephane ducasse
stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Wed Mar 5 09:32:43 UTC 2008
Thanks this is the kind of feedback I was looking for.
For now I was thinking not about morphic but all the places dealing
with change, code udpates....
but I will definitively look at yoru suggestion! Thanks again.
Sef
On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Colin Putney wrote:
>
> On 4-Mar-08, at 12:46 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:
>
>> My goal is to have a version of squeak (let's call it sapphire)
>> that does not pop up windows all the time anywhere (especially
>> annoying if we want to have a
>> server or headless system).
>> So I plan to have a look at all the inform: and other in the
>> packages of sapphire and I would like to have a way to
>> provide feedback via an UI elements or not. I thought that I should
>> look at toothpick.
>
> Aha. Then I definitely recommend Notifications. Take a look at
> subclasses of OBInteractionRequest. OmniBrowser uses them everywhere
> it needs to initiate interaction with the user - basically for
> opening a menu or window. As a result, the same core code can work
> unchanged with Morphic, a web UI via HTTP and a fake UI that's used
> for testing.
>
> Cleaning up direct use of Morphic in Squeak is a worthy goal -
> please share the code with us. I can certainly use it even if it
> doesn't go into the main distribution. Here's a fix to Parser to get
> you started.
>
> Colin
>
> <Parser.3.cs>
>
>
>
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