[UI] ToolBuilder

[Gary Chambers]

That's the jist, a generic way would leave little control and/or potential
conflicts though...

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> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Igor Stasenko
> Sent: 12 September 2007 5:42 pm
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] ToolBuilder
> 
> 
> On 12/09/2007, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > I expect supporting the scrolling would have been more work and not 
> > benefit from improvements to the ScrollPane class. 
> Delegation "should" 
> > have looked straightforward... Better to compose than rewrite with 
> > potential inconsitencies!
> >
> 
> Aha, so it looks like a composition of different 
> morphs/interfaces. It seems done only for bringing textMorph 
> interface to the front, so users of PluggableTextMorph can 
> deal with text without traveling through morphs hierarchy 
> (ScrollPane->TransformMorph->TextMorph).
> 
> Interesting, how this can be achieved in more clean and 
> generic way? I'm just thinking of using traits. Suppose we 
> have a trait like "PluggableText", which relies on single 
> message 'self textMorph' and exposes TextMorph interface to 
> class where trait is used. Then we can easily have interface 
> compositions like ScrollPane + TextMorph or AnythingElse + TextMorph.
> 
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