[UI] ToolBuilder

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Sun Sep 9 21:59:59 UTC 2007


As far as I see, the "Pluggables" seem to extend the flexibility...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Brad Fuller
> Sent: 09 September 2007 10:48 pm
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] ToolBuilder
> 
> 
> On Sun September 9 2007, Colin Putney wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> > > You called my bluff. I don't have much experience 
> debugging Morphic 
> > > code, but I did spend a few weeks hating the (self
> > > changed: aSymbol) when debugging some browser code in 
> both MVC and 
> > > Morphic, so my synopsis of Pluggable*Morphs was not objective.
> > >
> > > Now that I actually look, I don't see more appropriate 
> Morphs than 
> > > the Pluggable ones.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the noise.
> >
> > Well, I've lost some hair to Morphic as well, but I don't 
> think you're 
> > wrong here. If things keep going as they are, OB will 
> eventually have 
> > its own set of Morphic widgets. I'm having to override more 
> and more 
> > of the base Pluggable*Morph behavior, and it's not hard to 
> imagine a 
> > point where it's better to just subclass Morph directly. So there 
> > might not be a more "proper" way, but there probably *is* a better 
> > way.
> 
> AFAIC, if we could get rid of all the "pluggables" that would 
> be nice. But, 
> they are used everywhere. 
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