On 1 January 2014 19:25, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 06:25:27PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> On 1 January 2014 17:55, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think I am misunderstanding something. What is the dependency that is
>> > causing a problem? I can see that the #actOnClick methods are serving
>> > to dispatch things for handling mouse click events, and that this is
>> > related to UI processing (Morphic and MVC so far). But I don't see
>> > where those methods are causing a package dependency problem.
>> >
>> > Or are you saying that class TextAttribute itself does not belong in
>> > Collections? Sorry, I think I am just misunderstanding the problem here.
>>
>> No, although I wouldn't mind seeing a separate text-handling package
>> at some point, rather than having String and Text in the same package
>> as Array and Dictionary.
>>
>> I mean that TextSqkProjectLink >> #actOnClick: methods references
>> Project. That's the cause of the dependency. Doing one of those
>> horrible "dynamic dependency" things just doesn't seem like the right
>> thing. If we could find a way to route this particular Project
>> reference through UIManager, for instance, that would address my
>> immediate concerns.
>>
>
> Thanks, I see it now.
>
> A TextSqkProjectLink is logically associated with projects, which are a
> part of System-Support, so that dependency makes sense. It's not a UI
> thing, so routing through UIManager would not be right.

I'd mentioned UIManager just because these methods are about a user
clicking on some piece of text, and because MorphicUIManager uses
Project (in its #restoreDisplay). Moving TextSqkProjectLink to
System-Support sounds sensible.

> Putting TextSqkProjectLink into the system package along with Project
> might be sensible, although there are some other dependencies to sort
> out before that can be done. I'll try to follow up on that later if
> noone else gets to it first.

That would be great! I'm hip deep in looking over Colin's big chunk of
Environment change, and trying to figure out whether my Monticello
changes are completely broken, or just broken because Environments
might work slightly differently now.

frank

> Dave