[squeak-dev] The Inbox: System-bf.997.mcz
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Jan 26 02:38:41 UTC 2018
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:13:56PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 25 January 2018 at 19:48, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On 25-01-2018, at 7:56 AM, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
> > >
> > > Simplify project dispatch selector detection. No hard-coded list. Almost
> > as good.
> >
> > Maybe I missed something about why this slightly odd abstraction was
> > needed, but what is inadequate about simply having implementations of
> > #startUpWithCaption:icon:at:allowKeyboard: in each project related class?
> > How are these cases so different to the usages of UIManager et al. that we
> > need yet another mechanism?
>
>
> ???This is code from before we had Project subclasses.
>
Actually, it is more recent (circa 2010) and you can blame me for it.
This was work that I did in early 2010 on package modularity to make MVC be
a fully unloadable/reloadable package.
The dispatch mechanism was added here:
Name: System-dtl.241
Author: dtl
Time: 30 January 2010, 10:00:40.376 pm
UUID: 4d4d420e-4618-4fe6-ab0f-c63a28bb622f
Ancestors: System-dtl.240
Add Project>>dispatchTo:addPrefixAndSend:withArguments:
Allow classes with MVC and Morphic dependencies to dispatch through
Project current to invoke appropriate methods. Prevents accumulation
of unrelated implementations in Project.
And the end result was this:
Name: System-dtl.255
Author: dtl
Time: 15 February 2010, 10:37:15.416 pm
UUID: b70348f2-a094-4adc-80fa-696552b171f0
Ancestors: System-dtl.254
Update SystemDictionary>>discardMVC to perform complete MVC removal. MVC
may be reinstalled by loading packages ST80 and ToolBuilder-MVC.
I am very pleased with the reloadable MVC capability, and I would like to
do the same for Morphic. I am not so happy about my dispatching hack, so if
someone can propose a better alternative, please do so. I am /sure/ there
must be a better way to do this :-)
Dave
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