Peace Jerome <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> 
> 
> >Prim 91 is actually test  display depth... we don't
> do setting of the cursor position.
> 
> That's interesting.

It's very old and ought to be removed so as to avoid confusing people.


> >It'sa pretty bad bit of UI generally to take the
> users
> >'attention' and drag it somewhere else by force. 
> >
> 
> I pretty much agree with you. To see what I was trying
> to do. Get a rectangle ask for the bitmap fill style
> and then ask (via red menu) to reset the origin (or
> orientation). The cursor is where the menu item was
> selected which is usually nowhere near the original
> origin. So the UI is that the picture changes
> dramatically to jump the origin to where the cursor
> now is. It is not to bad for just the origin but the
> orientation stuff is rather jarring. So I thought that
> something that leaves them where they are until you
> move the cursor would be more pleasant. I’ve been
> experimenting with different things that might do that
> and following up my curiosity.\
Interesting problem.  Seems to me that you should get a chance to
choose the new origin you want rather than it simply jumping to the
cursor.

> 
> I’ve found many a piece of code in squeak that
> indicated someone intended for a particular function
> to work.

Ah, you've spotted the real weakspot of Squeak - too much left over
crud from unfinished and abandoned experiments and no documentation of
intent. Infuriating isn't it?

> And while I’m on the subject of curiosity who are the
> we of
> 
> > ... we don't do setting of the cursor position.
> 
> Who makes the communities standards? What are they?
Muah-ha-ha! _I_ do! It's me! Bow before me oh feeble earthlings!

Oh, and that Goran character. He pulls the strings via a complex web of
blackmail and coercion, drugs and surveilance. All under the control of
the Evil Overlord of course.


tim
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