Please allow me to simplify my question. I need a basic answer.

One of the articles on Morphic says you can create composite morphs either programatically, using addMorph, or using drag and drop from the Objects menu of the morphic World. I have done the latter, because it is easier to design my layout that way. Once that has been done, how do I address the submorph from a browser? If I inspect my button submorph, for example, all it will tell me about it is "a ScriptableButton<Button>(1364754)". I have no idea how to access that object in order to do anything with it. This is the crux of my questions.

Thank you

Tim Cuthbertson

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:49:35 +0100
From: "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Newbies] Using squeak with a script?
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Maybe

      ExternalCommandShell

     http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6023

this is of some help?

--Hannes

On 2/22/17, Göran Krampe <goran@krampe.se> wrote:
> On 21/02/17 20:51, Jacques Harmand wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I try to use squeak to execute the following basic Smalltalk script (in
>> a file "hello.st <http://hello.st>")
>> "Transcript show: 'Hello world'; cr."
>> from the command line with Squeak.  This works as expected with both GNU
>> Smalltalk and Pharo, but with Squeak nothing happens: Squeak seems to
>> wait forever.  If I add
>> "Smalltalk snapshot: false andQuit: true."
>> after the above line, the execution of the script terminates, but
>> without printing anything.
>
> I haven't looked closely at latest Squeak (perhaps Pharo has coupled
> Transcript to stdout for headless mode?), but Transcript is not the same
> thing as stdout - so you wouldn't see anything on stdout.
>
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:18:16 -0600
From: Tim Cuthbertson <ratcheer@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:41:36 +0100
From: "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginner Morphic Question
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Have you seen this example

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/526

?

Code

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/MorphicGUIDemo.2.cs.gz

Could you please explain in more details what you would like to build?

--Hannes

On 2/21/17, Tim Cuthbertson <ratcheer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to start a Morphic application. I have read a lot of
tutorials,
> but I can't figure out how to program my submorphs.
>
> I have created my top level as a subclass of PasteUpMorph, opened it, and
> embedded a ScriptableButton and, separately, a RoundRect into which I have
> embedded a TextMorph. (eventually, I plan to have five siblings of each of
> these submorphs, but I'm trying to start the project, simply).
>
> I think I am supposed to start programming these submorphs from my
> PasteUpMorph, in which they are all directly or indirectly embedded. If I
> inspect the PasteUpMorph subclass, I can see the others as submorphs of
it,
> but if I browse it, I don't see any objects into which to put any code. I
> just see an empty PasteUpMorph.
>
> How do I access and code the submorphs within subclasses (I think) of my
> top level morph?
>
> Tim Cuthbertson
>

No, I had not come across that example of "How to work with multiple text
morphs". I will study it and your other link.

I am starting a project (just as an example to learn Squeak) to come up
with a Yahtzee game clone. My text morphs will simply display a number that
represents a randomly rolled die. The button morphs will allow the user to
select whether a particular die is to be held from being rerolled. There
will be an additional button to allow the user to re-roll unheld dice.

I have this model working in a text-based model, but I decided to try to
re-implement it in a morphic GUI framework.

Thank you for the tips.

Tim Cuthbertson
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On 2/22/17, Tim Cuthbertson <ratcheer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:41:36 +0100
> From: "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com>
> To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions
>         about Squeak." <beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginner Morphic Question
> Message-ID:
>
> <CAGQxfVjPLxhKo09-c9r-1XyUMT1qjCHXF4AWRFDuvkaaUsQHaw@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Have you seen this example
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/526
>
> ?
>
> Code
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/MorphicGUIDemo.2.cs.gz
>
> Could you please explain in more details what you would like to build?
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 2/21/17, Tim Cuthbertson <ratcheer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to start a Morphic application. I have read a lot of
> tutorials,
>> but I can't figure out how to program my submorphs.
>>
>> I have created my top level as a subclass of PasteUpMorph, opened it, and
>> embedded a ScriptableButton and, separately, a RoundRect into which I
>> have
>> embedded a TextMorph. (eventually, I plan to have five siblings of each
>> of
>> these submorphs, but I'm trying to start the project, simply).
>>
>> I think I am supposed to start programming these submorphs from my
>> PasteUpMorph, in which they are all directly or indirectly embedded. If I
>> inspect the PasteUpMorph subclass, I can see the others as submorphs of
> it,
>> but if I browse it, I don't see any objects into which to put any code. I
>> just see an empty PasteUpMorph.
>>
>> How do I access and code the submorphs within subclasses (I think) of my
>> top level morph?
>>
>> Tim Cuthbertson
>>
>
> No, I had not come across that example of "How to work with multiple text
> morphs". I will study it and your other link.
>
> I am starting a project (just as an example to learn Squeak) to come up
> with a Yahtzee game clone. My text morphs will simply display a number that
> represents a randomly rolled die. The button morphs will allow the user to
> select whether a particular die is to be held from being rerolled.

Then I suggest that you focus first on programming a DieMorph

http://pharo.gforge.inria.fr/PBE1/PBE1ch12.html

Remember: 'Where Morphic stands out'
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6528

<citation>
The (Morphjic) framework is fully in Smalltalk; there are no
"primitive" widgets or hidden functionality. This means that there are
no restrictions to how a morph will appear and react. There are morphs
that behave like the widgets usually found, and therefore conventional
interfaces can be built. But there are more interesting visual
metaphors like CurveMorph, FishEyeMorph, EnvelopeEditorMorph, or
SpectrumAnalyzerMorph (see the next section with a Squeak at hand to
know them). And the framework is open end extensible. It s not
difficult to make new visual metaphors for our own objects, which are
perfectly integrated in the system.
</citation>

And
    'Method for making Morphs'
    http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/70


> There
> will be an additional button to allow the user to re-roll unheld dice.
>
> I have this model working in a text-based model, but I decided to try to
> re-implement it in a morphic GUI framework.
>
> Thank you for the tips.
>
> Tim Cuthbertson
>
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