Next steps for MCP?
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at netvision.net.il
Mon May 26 13:20:27 UTC 2003
Someone care to submit a patch? MCP, Ned, anyone?
Daniel
Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2003 04:19 am, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> > I wonder if you find this interesting - the class category
> > Morphic-Experimental sounds to me unessential to Morphic. But
> > looking at the reference graph using SpT, I see that actually,
> > Morphic-Kernel does depend on it in a few ways. The
> > *PropertiesMorph classes are referenced by Morph. This requires
> > some sleuthing as to whether the *PropertyMorphs should actually be
> > in the Squeak core (in which case, they should be moved out of the
> > category *Experimental), or that they should be made somehow
> > optional extensions, which would require some design solution.
>
> The AlignmentMorphBob1 is something that Bob Arning wrote and then
> used as a subclass for a lot of UI stuff that ended up in
> experimental, including the remote etoy stuff, nebraska, thread
> navigation, etc.
>
> However, it is also used for the GenericPropertiesMorph and its
> subclasses; these are used by the properties Halo handle.
>
> I would probably consider basing the GenericPropertiesMorph on
> AlignmentMorph or BorderedMorph, and copy the necessary methods from
> AMBob1 into it.
>
> Likewise, StretchyImageMorph probably doesn't need to be based on
> AMBob1.
>
> DrawErrorMorph appears to be something that was used in testing and
> could be removed.
>
> I have found ShowEmptyTextMorph or something like it to be useful,
> though the choice of how to display empty text should probably be
> moved to TextMorph.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
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