On Thursday 24 January 2008 4:13:05 am Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Subbu,
Is it possible to halo click characters in a paragraph down into its glyph in the font and edit it?
I believe that Ned did an experimental version based on his arrow glyph editor for Alan's demo. I saw the demo, but it is not in the official Squeakland or Etoys image.
Anyone have this changeset around? Looks like it was not posted to the mailing lists.
Alan Kay describes such an operation in his NSF paper but neither Squeakland image nor Etoys image is able to open a glyph editor on a character. Connectors contain a glyph editor but it only associates connection points with a glyph and does not supporting editing of shape :-(.
Yes, I'm actually surprised that editting doesn't work (I was assuming it does). If we fix the editting work, and create a special kind of text morph that shows halo for individual characters, and fix the editor so that it can store the editted glyph into the TTCFont, the demo can be revived. (Or, of course we could ask Ned to fix it!)
In Squeakland and Etoys, characters are not morphs :-(. Small morphs like character glyphs pose interesting challenges in programming. Just storing polylines, curves and textures is not enough. Without proportions and shape hints, aesthetics will be difficult to preserve across transformations.
Has anyone tried to the create the equivalent of Don Knuth's METAFONT in Squeak?
Regards .. Subbu