About Zurgle

stephane ducasse (home) ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon May 20 11:15:53 UTC 2002


Hi

> In overview, I didn't really make very many changes that should be
> integrated back into the image. I did one major refactoring of 
> SystemWindow
> which I submitted to the list last year:
>
> http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/1685.html
>
> which basically factored out all of the window frame stuff into a separate
> class (abstract class AbstractWindowFrame; concrete class
> SqueakWindowFrame). I don't think SystemWindow was fat, it's just there is
> an advantage to having the window frame be separate from the window 
> itself.
> This refactoring allows a lot easier manipulation of different interface
> elements. For example, you can add menu bars, tool bars, and status bars 
> to
> the window frame without having to extend SystemWindow.

Does a graphics or window guru can assess if these changes would be worth 
to be integrated?
I have the impression that this is worth but I do not have the background 
to assess it deeply.
Scott? Andreas? What do you think about that?

> I added the 'Stretch background' which stretches a desktop background
> picture to fill the Squeak desktop, which I also submitted to the list 
> which
> hasn't been incorporated.




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