But Cuis is Morphic only and does not support MVC, so this is more a rename
than unification...
Cuis Paragraph is not a subclass of DisplayObject for example.


2013/12/14 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>

> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 03:10:32PM -0500, Colin Putney wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > (a) The emergency evaluator's there _for good reason_.
> > > (b) We HAVE two UI frameworks right now. They're part of the standard
> > > image.
> > > (c) "Stripped" 4.5 base images do not have ST80, so this code is
> broken.
> > > (d) To fix it _requires_ two separate UI implementations because of
> point
> > > (b).
> > >
> >
> > I thought the point of the emergency evaluator was that it the fewest
> > dependencies possible. Since it scribbles directly on the Display, it
> > should work independently of any UI, and thus be useful when the UI is
> > broken.
> >
> > If the EE currently depends on MVC, then we remove that dependency,
> rather
> > than just generalize the dependency to MVC-or-Morphic. We could either
> > rewrite the bit that depends on MVC, or move the functionality that it
> does
> > depend on out of MVC and into a lower-level part of the system.
>
> Exactly right.
>
> I have a working implementation right now, please give me a day or so to
> play around with it.
>
> Whatever I post can go away if someone gets around to unifying NewParagraph
> with Paragraph (this is what Juan did in Cuis, and I am borrowing his code
> shamelessly).
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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