On 12 September 2013 11:31, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
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>> > I agree with this. Look for a user set background, if nil do default
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>> I don't understand your proposal.  The background just _is_ whatever
>> it is.  We set it during the release process.  When someone downloads
>> a release image, they either "set the background" to a color,
>> gradient, pattern, or bitmap of their choice or, they don't.  How are
>> you going to "look for a user set background?"  When would such a
>> thing be done?  Upon loading Morphic?  Why?  Why not just leave it as
>> is ?
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> I'm not able to check right now but isn't the background held in a instance
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> If the current background instance is lost or corrupt, the defaultBackground
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It is held in an instvar (Project's 'color' (!) instvar), and the
problem is that the #defaultBackground is unilaterally used.
(MorphicProject defaultBackground contains a base64-encoded image in a
string.)

I put a possible fix in the Inbox (Morphic-fbs.682).

frank

> It would be nice to have all setting like this as part of a theme setting
> one could file out and import into other images.
> I don't think this should be a ReleaseBuilder setting.
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>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:04 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> On 11-09-2013, at 11:58 AM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> > Well, since the whole point of this snippet is to change your project's
>>> > background, I'd say you simply want to delete it. Then you can rely on
>>> > whatever you do in release building to set the background for the
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>>> > image and everybody else keeps their background as-is.
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>>> It seems to me that the pattern ought to be along the lines of
>>> if user has set a specific preference, leave things alone
>>> if not, reset the default
>>> if that requires a redisplay/explosion/descent-down-the-rabbit-hole, do
>>> it.
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>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> Strange OpCodes: DNPG: Do Not Pass Go
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