Squeak book !

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Wed Sep 4 03:49:46 UTC 2002


Goran Hultgren <goran.hultgren at bluefish.se> wrote:
	Andreas pointed out earlier that AlignmentMorph can indeed still
	be used for the simple reason of being a bit more explicit in
	intention (or something like that), but it isn't *necessary* to
	use anymore though since any Morph can do what it can.  If I
	understood that thread correctly.
	
AlignmentMorph is still _there_, but I'm not the only one reading this
list to have been given the impression that it's on the way out.

Put that possible misunderstanding to one side: the book clearly and
explicitly says to use AlignmentMorphs, says that alignment is done
by adding morphs, does NOT explain how you can do alignment with Morph,
and certainly doesn't help anyone understand
no layout/proportional layout/table labout.
I'm still struggling to write my Table morph (the state of documentation
in some of the examples I've found on the web makes this easier than
using their code) and I could really use some help with this stuff.

Even ignoring layout, there are _lots_ of things I would like to know
about Morph which are not in that chapter, presumably for reasons of
space.  It's only about 25 pages long, and it really needed to be the
size of the whole book.  Still, surely another couple of pages on
GeeMailMorphs (what _have_ they got to do with mail, and how the xxxx do
you use them, anyway?)  and/or BookMorphs would have been possible.

I'm *not* saying that what is there is *bad*.  Far from it.
I'm saying it isn't *enough* and it isn't up to date.

	IMHO, anyone reading this and getting interested in Squeak webserving:
	PWS is more or less obsolete code (as in "unmaintained" AFAICT). Use
	Comanche instead which a lot of people use and which works very good
	including being the base of Swiki.
	
The point is that the book spends quite a few pages on PWS and only 1 or 2
on the Comanche "research project".

This doesn't mean it is a _bad_ book, only that we already need a 3.2 edition.




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