Hello all,

I’ve been working in Cuis and loving the reduced footprint, and Trygve’s note encourages me to ask whether there’s anyone who wants to contribute to a reimplementation of old-school MVC and an updated “wrapper” framework for GUI construction in Squeak/Cuis.

My application (Siren music tools) uses StandardSystemViews/Controllers, and so I’ve made file-ins that restore much of the View/Controller framework, but bottoming out to Morphs for the display objects.

Did I miss it in the years I was away? Has this been done before?

stp

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> On Jun 15, 2020, at 5:44 AM, Trygve Reenskaug <trygver at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> Hi Squeakers,
> My SRE context browser is a tool for drawing a snapshot of a selected structure of interlinked objects where each object is shown as a rectangular symbol. This diagram shows an object with its class and superclass objects:
> 
> <clfapgjkmegmpnfm.gif>
> SRE has worked for years, last in 'Squeak3.10.2'. In 'Squeak5.3', the same program went into an infinite loop. It transpired that myClass>>processEvent: anEvent using: defaultDispatcher had become a new thing called an event filter and needed to return an Event or a Symbol. That problem fixed; the program still misbehaves. The problem seems to be with event handling. I have never been into that corner of Smalltalk but have read some Squeak documentation. I have not found any concrete code.  I realize that I will never understand Squeak's event handling by reading code, code comments, and even the documentation I have found. There has apparently been a significant increase in complexity lately. An example: In 3,10,2, class MorphicEventDispatcher has 4 methods. In 5,3, it has 16.
> 
> Here's the beginning of my challenges with 5.3: I find two anomalies in a diagram with just one symbol:
>     When I move some other window to a position within the diagram, the diagram grabs it and makes it a submorph of itself.  In 3.10.2, the diagram ignores it.
>     The cursor becomes a text cursor when I move the mouse across a symbol.
> I have no explanation for either anomaly. My SRE code is a kludge and is almost unreadable. It is hard to formulate a question without the whole code as a background, and I have tried to reproduce them in a simple example. I managed to reproduce the first, but not the second anomaly. In a workspace, copy, select,  and do it. The XXX-symbol becomes attached to the cursor, and I place it in the blue background. 
> joe := PasteUpMorph new color: Color lightBlue.
> joe bounds: (500 at 400 corner: 800 at 600).
> joe dropEnabled: true.
> joe openInWorld.
> circle := CircleMorph new.
> joe addMorphCentered: circle.
> tex := TextMorphXX new
>         contents: 'XXX';
>         borderWidth: 1;
>         color: Color red;
>         extent: 100 at 100.
> tex openInHand.
> There is only one  method in class TextMorphXX (sco TextMorph):
> processEvent: anEvent using: defaultDispatcher
>     ^#rejected
> <ojfapckoaibeechh.png>
> 
> I move some background window,  actually a collapsed Monticello thing, to Joe's position, Joe grabs it and makes it into a submorph. Any hints about how to proceed will be greatly appreciated.
> --Trygve
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