[squeak-dev] Re: Possible Background fix

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 17:12:09 UTC 2011


Perhaps there are really two methods here?

On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> Mirko Kapps wrote:
>> 
>> Well, the dependency (and possible loading error) was one of the reasons behind my "Color or gradient as fall-back" idea. I /think/ I understand why depending on external files isn't good with an image based system, but OTOH, I also understand Casey's point of keeping the image small.
>> 
>> Since my latest version of Theme>>setBackground: actually supports all of this, you could just include Themes which have at most a small image included in the image, but people can still set external files as the background (at least I like to have that). (am I the only one who gets confused with picture image vs. Smalltalk image? ;-) )
>> 
>> If my last #setBackground: version has any chance of inclusion, just tell me what you don't like about it or how it could be advanced/made better and I see if I can do it. :-)
>> 
>> Kindest Regards
>> Mirko 
> 
> I suggest moving the method to PasteUpMorph, and exiting with '^self ' instead of '^nil', as it is usual in Smalltalk.
> 
> Mhhh... There's something else. If you give a Form it is tiled, but if you give a file name, it is stretched... Maybe someone wants to stretch a Form, or tile a file name...
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> 



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