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Hi John-Reed, hi Tobias,<div><br></div><div>I think that this is not the SystemWindow's fault but "name" as a concept for morphs is kind of broken. See the following methods in the Morph class:</div><div><br></div><div>#innocuousName</div><div>#name:</div><div>#nameInModel</div><div>#setNameTo:</div><div>#tryToRenameTo:</div><div>#knownName</div><div>#renameInternal:</div><div>#renameTo:</div><div>#externalName</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that this has happened due to missing task-specific means of configuration. Like #printString, there can only be one to be used by all applications and tools. Here, the terms "internal" and "external" and "known" suggest that somebody tried to add such kind of configuration for "name". Without success, I would conclude. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 13.12.2017 03:00:50 schrieb John-Reed Maffeo <jrmaffeo@gmail.com>:</p>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Tobias,<div><br></div><div>The application I am building uses #SystemWindow. The window has a model which contains the application program logic. One of the methods in my model wants to access the #SystemWindow so I gave it a name. When I tried to access the system window by name I got the label of the window and not the name I gave it (I was astonished!). As I dug through the code, I saw that the #knownName methods in #Morph and #SystemWindow return different values. </div><div><br></div><div>Note: I am still a newbie andMorphic has been a mystery to me for a long time .</div><div><br></div><div>I can work around the issue, but I was surprised, and confused by the fact that I was not getting the result I expected when I tried to access my application system window by the name I had given it. My design is probably bollocks and I don't really need to access the system window from the model, but I thought it was something deserved review.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.c2.com/?PrincipleOfLeastAstonishment">http://wiki.c2.com/?PrincipleOfLeastAstonishment</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking and interest,</div><div><br></div><div>-jrm</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Tobias Pape <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Das.Linux@gmx.de" target="_blank">Das.Linux@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;min-width: 500px"><br>
"SystemWindow #knownName violates principle of least astonishment"<br>
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Care to explain?<br>
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Best regards<br>
-Tobias<br>
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> On 12.12.2017, at 22:33, John-Reed Maffeo <<a href="mailto:jrmaffeo@gmail.com">jrmaffeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> SystemWindow<br>
> knownName<br>
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> ^label<br>
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> ___________<br>
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> Morphic<br>
> knownName<br>
> "answer a name by which the receiver is known, or nil if none"<br>
> ^ extension ifNotNil: [extension externalName]<br>
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> _____________<br>
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> I modified and tested the attached.<br>
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> -jrm<br>
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