Mark,

Thanks for noting this. The original intent of this morph was just to
provide something people could play with in the *very* early stages of 3D
support. This guy is pretty much obsolete but I'll fix it so that it does
use the right (e.g., latest interfaces).

  Andreas

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> ----------
> From: 	Mark Guzdial
> Reply To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:23 AM
> To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: 	recipient list not shown
> Subject: 	[bug] [fix (? partial)] B3Dmorph no longer works
> 
> Playing around with Squeak 2.6a, I found that B3Dmorph (from the New Morph
> menu) no longer worked.  Thinking that it might be an exceptions thingie,
> I
> then tried 2.5.  Didn't work there either!
> 
> The problem seems to be that the B3Dmorph no longer has a texture when
> it's
> first told to draw itself, so it bombs when nil is asked to be asTexture.
> 
> The below fix just generates a form and uses that as the texture.  I do it
> inside of initialize.  Don't know if it's the right fix, but it works now.
> 
> However, the set texture menu item on B3Dmorph still doesn't work.
> 
> 'From Squeak 2.5 of August 6, 1999 on 28 September 1999 at 10:19:52 am'!
> 
> !B3DMorph methodsFor: 'initialize' stamp: 'mjg 9/28/1999 10:19'!
> initialize
> 	super initialize.
> 	geometry _ B3DBox from: (-0.7 at -0.7@-0.7) to: (0.7 at 0.7@0.7).
> 	camera _ B3DCamera new.
> 	(self confirm:'Put me into a clipping frame?')
> 		ifTrue:[camera position: 0 at 0@1.5]
> 		ifFalse:[camera position: 0 at 0@2. color _ nil].
> 	camera nearDistance: 0.1.
> 	camera farDistance: 5.0.
> 	self extent: 100 at 100.
> 	texture _ (Form extent: 100 at 100) asTexture.
> 	angle _ 0.! !
> 
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