[squeak-dev] Re: [Ann] Cuis 3.1 is available

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire.fernandes at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 21:17:40 UTC 2011


Really feels snappy! Should be quite snappy on XO with COG VM.

Hilaire

Le 04/03/2011 21:41, Juan Vuletich a écrit :
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Cuis 3.1 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . From
> the release notes:
> 
> New in Cuis 3.1
> -------------------
>    * Super fast Morphic world display.
>          o     About ten times faster when many windows are open.
>          o     Makes the whole UI feel much more responsive.
>          o     Simpler code.
> 
>    * New Layout engine.
>          o     New layout specs and logic.
>          o     New layout adjusters and window resizers.
>          o     Allows adding / removing morphs without leaving "holes".
>          o     Orders of magnitude simpler. Can be understood by humans.
> Removed all traces of the old code.
> 
>    * Cleaner look for Default theme. Nicer buttons, menus and halos.
> Faster world redraw allows for full-window resize.
> 
>    * Morphic buttons simplification: reduced 5 morphic button classes
> into just one.
> 
>    * New Transcript
>          o     Fast (Calls return quickly)
>          o     Fast (Updates are immediate)
>          o     Thread safe
>          o     Can log to file in addition to Display
>          o     Display output is optional (for headless images)
>          o     Can work on a bare bones image (Doesn't need UI,
> dependency, events, processes)
>          o     Optional morphic window for seamless integration in Morphic
>          o     UI framework agnostic. Can be used to debug Morphic, even
> with the morphic window open, without crashing the image!
>          o     No longer a text editor. Display is read only.
> 
>    * Support for .mcz files (they are treated like .cs and .st files)
> 
>    * Removed the colored mouse button naming from all over the system.
> Now they are #mouseButton1, #mouseButton2 and #mouseButton3.
> 
>    * Cleaner Clipboard design & api, to enable extended clipboard
> 
>    * Fixes to transparent pixels in 32bpp Forms
> 
>    * Lots of code simplifications all over the system: Text, Menus,
> Tools layout construction, SystemWindow. Killed FakeClassPool.
> 
>    * Utilities: #printStack: (great together with the new Transcript),
> better comment at Object>>#is:
> 
>    * Many updates from Squeak, including cascading of optimized sends
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> 
> 


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