NetMorph on Squeak map was a package to send morph to anywhere :-)

Best,
Karl


On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sounds to me like the discussion has moved into the
> it-could-mean-just-about-anything stage. So far we have:
> - sending morphs from one project to another
> - perhaps selecting the destination based on some morph property
> - perhaps the receiving project could refuse to accept the morph
> - make the morph frontmost in the receiving project's world, unless that
> project doesn't even have a world
>
> And other questions occur:
>
> - why limit this to morphs? Why not send arbitrary data from project to
> project?
> - is a morph a ui representation of some separate domain object? Where
> does the domain object live?
> - what if the sending project is in "grid-view mode" and the receiving
> project is in "list-view mode"? Does sending a specific morph make any
> sense?
> - why assume the morph would be installed in the world at the other end?
> - do we assume the morph must be deleted from the sending world? Dropping
> a morph on a PVM will send a *copy* to the other project.
>
> This all started with a simple problem that had a simple answer. Then many
> answers appeared without a clear notion of what the problem is. Who has a
> real problem that happens several times a day that takes too long to do?
> DTSTTCPW, anyone?
>
> On 5/2/18 1:36 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:
>
> On 5/2/18, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> a Flap would do that
>
> Yes it does, but the new method discussed here will allow to send the
> morph to another project without leaving the current project.
>
> In addition, depending on how it is implemented,  a script might send
> several morphs to different projects depending on their properties
> (e.g. moving task cards around for a project mgmt system).
>
>
> On 5/1/18 8:04 PM, Francisco Garau wrote:
>
> I use to like the squeak trash bin morph were you could recover previously
> deleted morphs.
>
> How about a similar sort of morph that acts as a teleporter? You drop the
> morphs in one project and recover it from any other.
>
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