[squeak-dev] Re: PluggableTextMorph >> getText
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jan 12 03:45:57 UTC 2010
Ralph Boland wrote:
> In my project I modified PluggableTextMorph >> getText to be as follows:
>
> getText
> "Retrieve the current model text"
>
> | newText |
> getTextSelector isNil ifTrue: [^Text new].
> newText := (getTextSelector numArgs = 1)
> ifTrue: [model perform: getTextSelector with: self]
> ifFalse: [model perform: getTextSelector].
> newText ifNil: [^Text new].
> ^newText shallowCopy
>
>
> The change allows the getTextSelector to pass an additional argument: self.
> I made this change because I wanted to know which PluggableTextMorph
> was asking for text.
> This is useful when one has large numbers of similar PluggableTextMorphs.
> Note that the method PluggableTextMorph >> acceptTextInModel
> already does this so I didn't need to modify it.
> Thus I think my change makes PluggableTextMorph more consistent.
>
> Any chance of this change being made a part of the Squeak image?
Generally speaking it looks like a useful improvement so push it into
the inbox and we can see what it actually looks like. Hint: You can
improve your chances by adding tests :-)
Cheers,
- Andreas
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