> I do feel completely justified to reclassify an issue affecting
> FormCanvas from Balloon3D to Morphic. If you feel that was inappropriate
> I'm curious to hear your reasoning.

I discovered the bug while using the BalloonCanvas framework. I was
not doing anything related to Morphic programming (I was just drawing
on ColorForms), so I thought this was related to graphics. This was
probably a wrong assumption.

> From there, things get a little more difficult. A couple of days later,
> you filed another, logically related (but structurally independent)
> change to BalloonEngine which I actually looked at but didn't like at
> all (you may not have realized that the implication of this change is
> that each and every use of BalloonEngine comes with a 256k memory
> allocation - even if you draw a 1x1px form) so I decided to postpone
> this until the time I could sit down and work out a better fix.

Yes I realized that this wasted memory. That's why I asked you for help:

"renggli 10-15-06 17:56: Reminder sent to: andreas. Desperately
looking at some other hardcoded clipping constants I stumbled across
BaloonEngine>>#initialize. It is a very interesting method, because it
uses both numbers that I observed as a drawing limit in the
x-direction. I don't understand what the variable 'span' is used for
however. Andreas, isn't this code part of Balloon3D ..."

Since I got no answer I helped myself: I patched it in my image so
that it worked for my use-case and posted the patch to mantis knowing
that this might not be the perfect solution.

Frankly I didn't expect that this bug report would ever be looked at
or mentioned again. I am glad that the issue is now discussed in the
list.

> I can't speak for whether someone cares about the Morphic bits but if an
> issue gets filed in a category that I don't monitor it's a very good way
> to make sure I won't ever look at it.

But this was you that re-categorized it under Morphic:

10-12-06 02:32  andreas         Category Balloon3D => Morphic

Should we split the bug-report into two categories (Balloon3D and Morphic)?

Lukas

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