Thanks for this, Bob!

I work in a similar way to what other people describe.  I keep my work separated into different Morphic projects.  When I find myself starting to digress, I start a new project, and move the related inspectors/browsers/workspaces into it.  However, I simply do this by dragging-and-dropping morphs into the project's snapshot/thumbnail morph*.  The thumbnail will say "GOT IT!" and contain a copy of the morph.

This approach has caveats:  

(1) the snapshot/thumbnail morph will only accept drops if its project has been entered and exited, erm, recently (?). 
(2) this technique creates a copy of morphs rather than moving them.  
(3) this exposes what I believe to be a bug: the thumbnail bitmap/form will not always show the most recent visual representation of the project contained inside.

I too have wanted a halo menu item to send a morph to another project.  I like the possibility of having a "drop zone" morph as a teleporter ... though the project snapshot/thumbnail morph can work in this way.  

I am asking myself now what would happen if I dragged a project snapshot/thumbnail morph into a shared flap so I could move it between projects:  tested, done.  it works.  So:  one way to move morphs between projects is to move a project's thumbnail/snapshot morph between projects, and drag-and-drop morphs into it.  Just be aware that it will probably only work if the project has been entered and exited "recently".

Best,
Tim


* a SystemWindow/PasteUpMorph with a model of MorphicProject 


> On May 2, 2018, at 5:09 AM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> In the course of this discussion, it seemed like drag&drop might be handy for some use cases. Attached is a (really simple) DropZoneMorph that can do whatever you like to things dropped into it.
> 
> On 5/2/18 5:48 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:
>> Bob, thank you for the good summary of the points of discussion.
>> I work in a similar way as Stéphane describes.
>> 
>> --Hannes
>> 
>> On 5/2/18, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> <mailto:lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:
>>>> This all started with a simple problem that had a simple answer. Then
>>>> many answers appeared without a clear notion of what the problem is. Who
>>>> has a real problem that happens several times a day that takes too long
>>>> to do? DTSTTCPW, anyone?
>>> I use projects mostly as virtual desktops where I keep different aspects
>>> of my work (be it development or music composition) more or less cleanly
>>> separated.
>>> 
>>> When I realize that what I'm working on is not anymore in the meant
>>> scope of the current project, I create a new project and dispatch all
>>> workspaces, browsers and other tools (including homemade ones such as
>>> musical editors) that live in the current (usually crowded) World to the
>>> world of that project.
>>> 
>>> So I only deal with top-level morphs, and as I said earlier I added an
>>> item in their red handle menu to easily send them away (usually several
>>> morphs in a row). I also have another item for sending a morph copy to
>>> another project, but I use this one much less often.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Stef
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> <DropZone.02May0805.cs>

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