Morphic Wrappers again

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Jul 31 08:17:02 UTC 2003


Hi franscico

Good to hear about you!
Are you coming to ESUG? You could even come with your wife and kid 
there is a swimmingpool...:)

Stef

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 01:48 AM, Francisco Garau wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>
>> Question: what was the last version of Squeak the package on SM was 
>> known
>> to work with?
>
> I should find the way to upload this version into the SqueakMap...
>
>> My problems. I use MathMorphs.pdf from the Squeak book as my tutorial.
>> Assigning a name as in
>> "punto := self" did nothing.
>
> In the attached version this problem is solved. (But type the arrow '_'
> instead of ':=' to make the assignments)
>
>> I build a silly little class called Person with one instance variable
>> 'name'. I expected "Person new name: 'Frits' ; self" to give me a 
>> wrapper
>> on an instance of a Person. Instead I got a Morph Explorer. I do get 
>> the
>> correct result on a point.
>
> There is a preference to turn off the Explorer. Just turn off
> 'exploreComplexMorphicWrappers' from the category 'MorphicWrappers'.
> But please notice that this is a special explorer. Highlight any item 
> of the
> explorer, press tab and then type any message you want to send to the
> highlighted object.
>
> Pressing tab before to enable aerial typing was a feature requested by
> Stefan Ducasse. The problem before was that if you were inputing text 
> on a
> window and your mouse was moved away, then you start typing on the air
> without wanting it.
>
> Now, tab has two meanings: start the aerial typing and autocomplete the
> message (when possible)
>
>>
>> I am exploring the statement that MorphWrappers are Squeak's answer to
>> Naked Objects.
>>
>
> I strongly belive that. (Thought there is still a lot to implement)
>
> Regards,
> Francisco GArau
>
> <MW-36a-5325-b.zip>



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