[squeak-dev] Project ENTER ACIVE (was: ActiveWorld and World globals)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Nov 25 19:21:06 UTC 2017


Thanks Bob,

Indeed that is exactly what I'm seeing. SystemWindows have the problem, and
ordinary morphs do not. Thanks for the tip.

Dave


On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 01:29:33PM -0500, Bob Arning wrote:
> If what you are seeing is bad behavior when moving a SystemWindow, but 
> reasonable behavior when moving an ordinary Morph, then the answer might 
> lie in SystemWindow>>justDroppedInto:event:. The initial focus for 
> world-in-world was not really SystemWindows, but the kind of things one 
> would see in Etoys.
> 
> 
> On 11/25/17 11:08 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 04:09:12PM +0100, H. Hirzel wrote:
> >>On 11/16/17, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >>>>On 15-11-2017, at 6:45 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>It certainly is nice to be able to rotate the world 30 degrees off its
> >>>>axis
> >>>>and still have it remain functional.
> >>>Indeed - you have no idea how often I???ve longed for this???
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>tim
> >>... The most useful feature is  that you can easily move objects in
> >>and out of the subproject to the parent project.
> >>
> >But something is wrong with the way this is working. The symptoms are
> >that if I do ENTER ACTIVE to activate the project morph as a 
> >world-in-world,
> >and then move or resize windows within that activated world, the geometry
> >is all wrong, and it seems to be derived from the geometry of the main 
> >world
> >(for the full display).
> >
> >When the mouse pointer moves over the activated world-in-world, is it
> >the case that the current project, world, and hand should be changed
> >to that of the world-in-world? That is not happening, and I suspect it
> >is at the root of the geometry problem.
> >
> >I am guessing that there needs to be some hook to update the current
> >project to that of the world-in-world project whenever the mouse pointer
> >is over that project.
> >
> >I know that I am not saying this very clearly but maybe it will trigger
> >an idea from someone who is familiar with this.
> >
> >Dave
> >  
> >
> 

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