[UI] We haven't discussed Host windows yet

[Gary Chambers]

All these things are possible...
IMO the "confirm" part is certainly in the wrong domain (process vs ui) as
you indicate.

FFI, can be done, is a lot of work though (different platforms having
different strategies for handling their "event loop").

Regardless of the "we can do it" we still need a framework of some kind to
allow us to do it in a flexible manner.

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[mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Jason Johnson
Sent: 06 September 2007 5:48 pm
To: Squeak's User Interface
Subject: Re: [UI] We haven't discussed Host windows yet


On 9/6/07, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Well, that gives us something to base a way forward upon.
> We need to really flesh out what people really want before going any 
> further, I think.

I hate to be a broken record here but I really think we need to look at
moving to MVP to build on.  The other day I looked at change sets, and deep
down in a low level object I see "self confirm: 'are you sure you want to do
this?'".  It doesn't specify a gui but why does it specify anything at all.
If I'm writing some code that calls this in the background I have to find
some way of suppressing this code.  It's not the responsibility of this
method to ask if it should do the work, it's the responsibility of the GUI
that presents the option.

The domains are spilled all over each other right now and I suspect that's
why Morphic is so impenetrable.  If we can fix that we can go a long way to
having a world class GUI, not to mention an easier time with allowing more
options.

And speaking of options, we have FFI already, what stops us from calling
native controls like Dolphin does?  Maybe we could even embed them in our
Squeak apps instead of full blown host windows.
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