Hi all--
Spoon website: http://netjam.org/spoon
This is another in a series of Spoon progress messages that I intend to send out on first and third Wednesdays. At the moment I have just emerged from the smoking crater in my recreational programming schedule known as northern winter solstice...
Work continues on a sample module, for graphics support[1]. I gave a lot of thought as to whether, in general, I'd rather do a blind copy of behavior from current Squeak to get things running, or refactoring for intelligibility. It's not an easy decision; a lot of the existing code is confusing, bloated, or simply wrong, but rethinking things has a significant development time cost. I decided it would be better to try to keep Spoon small and simple for as long as possible, even if it's mostly for my own education. So, I'm reviewing everything I put into this module.
Here's the method I'm debugging into existence:
***
letThereBeGreen "Create a Display, then display an all-green Picture that covers it."
| display |
display := ( Display withWidth: 200 height: 200 andDescription: 'the primary display').
(Picture covering: display) fillWithColor: Color green; displayOn: display
***
I'm in the depths of Color at the moment (pun intended :).
thanks,
-C
[1] http://tinyurl.com/y6u9qc (an archived Spoon list message)
-- Craig Latta http://netjam.org/resume