On 5 June 2013 15:45, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 2013-06-04, at 22:57, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 20 May 2013 19:47, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20 May 2013 19:42,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>>> A new version of MorphicExtras was added to project The Inbox:
>>>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/MorphicExtras-fbs.108.mcz
>>>>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>
>>>> Name: MorphicExtras-fbs.108
>>>> Author: fbs
>>>> Time: 20 May 2013, 7:42:41.076 pm
>>>> UUID: ff1de6e0-6c3a-4322-9c1a-ce0bed2406df
>>>> Ancestors: MorphicExtras-fbs.107
>>>>
>>>> A ScrapBook uses a BookMorph to store Morphs. It replaces Utilities' scrapsBook.
>>>>
>>>> =============== Diff against MorphicExtras-fbs.107 ===============
>>>
>>> You need to load the System-side changes (in the System-fbs.532 in the
>>> Inbox) before this one, or Bad Things Might Happen.
>>
>> While this mainly works, under some conditions (I think clicking on
>> the can itself?) you get a debugger because the ScrapBook isn't a
>> morph; it just _has_ a morph. Implementing the missing method means
>> hitting MNU after MNU as you implement many many Morph messages.
>> Eventually you have to implement #privateOwner and then Bad Things
>> Happen.
>>
>> I really don't want to reimplement Morph's protocol in the ScrapBook,
>> but I'm also really not a fan of proxying via #doesNotUnderstand:
>> (because those kinds of proxies obscure the proxied object's API).
>>
>> I'd love to hear some feedback on this work so I can close it off. It
>> removes a class var from Utilities, and so makes Utilities that bit
>> more pull-apart-able. (Eventually I'd like to see Utilities banished
>> to the wilderness, but it's a long journey to that point.)
>>
>> frank
>
>
> Sounds like maybe it should be a morph, after all?

Yeah, I guess. That's what the image is telling me. I suppose in the
grander scheme of things it doesn't matter too much, given that this
is intrinsically a Morphic thing. Other UIs would have their own
mechanism.

frank

> - Bert -