[squeak-dev] Re: Separating Morphic and MVC

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Sun Aug 9 02:25:42 UTC 2009


Hi Folks,

Andreas Raab wrote:
> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> I'm willing to help. I can fix the issues in the Cuis text editors. 
>> Just point me to the last version of the new editors you have, and 
>> any instructions on how to update from the latest trunk.
>
> Cool. I've posted both Editor and TextEditor from Cuis (verbatim 
> versions), added a DefaultEditorClass to TextMorph, and a preference 
> to control its use. If you go to help>>preferences then search for 
> useNewEditors, you can toggle the use of TextMorphEditor vs. TextEditor.
>
> Also, I think your idea of having an explicit class SmalltalkEditor is 
> a really good idea. It allows us a number of useful choices: For 
> example, for someone shipping an app, you can replace the default 
> morphic text editor class with one that doesn't allow users to 
> evaluate code in the "find" dialog :^) Plus, the SmalltalkEditor could 
> include hooks for syntax highlighting and auto-completion so that 
> Shout and others don't need to patch all these other places.

I updated the trunk with fixes to the new Editor hierarchy from Cuis. It 
is fully functional now.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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