[squeak-dev] Dependencies on Cursor

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 14:20:30 UTC 2013


On 6/25/13, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:16:03AM -0300, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
>> Quoting Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
>>
>> >...
>> >I realise that I'm advocating the removal of a host of Graphics
>> >dependencies only to replace them with ToolBuilder-Kernel
>> >dependencies. I'd prefer to not have the latter either, but it's a
>> >lesser of two evils.
>> >
>> >...
>> >frank
>>
>> What about my suggestion? I mean, doesn't it deserve a comment?
>>
>
> Yes indeed it does. I have not been following this discussion closely, but
> I'll comment anyway :-)
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:28:31AM -0300, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
>> I recently did something better fo Cuis. The idea is to let Morphic
>> handle that. If Morphic frame rate drops below some threshold, show
>> the wait cursor. This way, there are no 'bad' references to UI from
>> non-UI code, and you only get the wait cursor if appropriate (for
>> instance, not if the very same code is run on a forked process). It is
>> trivial to add protocol to set the "wait cursor" to be used. This
>> allowed me to clean a lot of methods.
>>
>> It is in update #1704 at https://github.com/jvuletich/Cuis .
>
> This sounds like like a really elegant approach, because it does not
> require advance knowledge that some operation is likely to take a long
> time, and it will do the right thing on both slow and fast hardware.
>
> It does however seem to depend on the Morphic update mechanism, so it
> may not translate well to other UI styles. (I look to MVC to keep us
> honest in these matters, but you can imagine a SeasideProject in addition
> to MorphicProject and MVCProject, and the same principle applies.)
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:12:08PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>> After more thought, I should rebut myself for sounding so harsh.
>> Frank, are Cursor showWhile:, et al. the _sole_ cause of dependency on
>> Graphics from many packages?  If so, then I do understand the interest
>> in wanting to soften those dependencies.  If we're going to extend
>> "UIManager" I think we should call it something generic to a UI that
>> may not even support a cursor:
>>
>>   UIManager default indicateBusyWhile: [ ... ]
>>   UIManager default indicateReadingWhile: [ ... ]
>>   etc.
>>
>
> This sounds like a promising approach. It is easy to read and the intent
> is clear. It seems like it would provide a mechinism for using an optimal
> implementation for various types of projects. For example, an MVCProject
> might use the traditional "Cursor wait showWhile:" idiom, and a
> MorphicProject
> could use the new Cuis approach. Meanwhile if someone was (finally!)
> implementing SeasideProject, they could figure out an implementation that
> makes sense for a web app.
>
> Dave

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