On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:58 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> The class comment of ExternalScreen explains the intent:
>
>   "I represent a DisplayScreen that is not part of the Squeak universe.
>   Subclasses must implement the appropriate primitives for creating,
>   destroying and allocating the appropriate external objects."
>
> Currently these classes, and any associated methods elsewhere in the image,
> are in category "Etoys-Squeakland-Graphics-External".
>
> So a first guess would be that they should be in "Graphics-External", but
> that does not work because it is a subset of the existing "Graphics". So
> instead it might be "External-Graphics". But there will probably be other
> things that we will see as "external" to the "Squeak universe", so I
> would propose this:
>
> The package name on source.squeak.org should be "External". The class
> categories for these external graphics classes and methods should
> be "External-Graphics".
>

+1.  But what about the project name?  i.e. we have trunk, inbox etc.
Where would External-Foo go in that constellation?



>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 06:34:31PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > So where should this go?  It doesn't belong in any of the projects on
> > source.squeak.org except the inbox, and that's just a temporary holding
> > pen.  Should we have a Miscellaneous project? An Extras project?  Should
> it
> > live somewhere else (please no)?
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> >
> > > A new version of GraphicsExternal was added to project The Inbox:
> > > http://source.squeak.org/inbox/GraphicsExternal-cbc.2.mcz
> > >
> > > ==================== Summary ====================
> > >
> > > Name: GraphicsExternal-cbc.2
> > > Author: cbc
> > > Time: 20 April 2017, 2:23:29.777447 pm
> > > UUID: 7a5bf028-13ba-7443-a625-08ecf802fdcf
> > > Ancestors: GraphicsExternal-cbc.1
> > >
> > > Move some Form methods only used in conjuction with our classes into
> this
> > > package.
> > >
> > > =============== Diff against GraphicsExternal-cbc.1 ===============
> > >
> > > Item was added:
> > > + ----- Method: Form>>displayScreen (in category '*GraphicsExternal')
> -----
> > > + displayScreen
> > > +       "Return the display screen the receiver is allocated on.
> > > +       Forms in general are Squeak internal and not allocated on any
> > > particular display."
> > > +       ^nil!
> > >
> > > Item was added:
> > > + ----- Method: Form>>isBltAccelerated:for: (in category
> > > '*GraphicsExternal') -----
> > > + isBltAccelerated: ruleInteger for: sourceForm
> > > +       "Return true if the receiver can perform accelerated blts
> > > operations by itself"
> > > +       ^false!
> > >
> > > Item was added:
> > > + ----- Method: Form>>isExternalForm (in category '*GraphicsExternal')
> > > -----
> > > + isExternalForm
> > > +       ^false!
> > >
> > > Item was added:
> > > + ----- Method: Form>>isFillAccelerated:for: (in category
> > > '*GraphicsExternal') -----
> > > + isFillAccelerated: ruleInteger for: aColor
> > > +       "Return true if the receiver can perform accelerated fill
> > > operations by itself"
> > > +       ^false!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _,,,^..^,,,_
> > best, Eliot
>
> >
>
>
>


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_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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