and EToySenderMorph can send a morph to another computer


On 5/2/18 3:05 PM, karl ramberg wrote:
> NetMorph on Squeak map was a package to send morph to anywhere :-)
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> Best,
> Karl
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> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net 
> <mailto:arning315 at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>     Sounds to me like the discussion has moved into the
>     it-could-mean-just-about-anything stage. So far we have:
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>     - sending morphs from one project to another
>     - perhaps selecting the destination based on some morph property
>     - perhaps the receiving project could refuse to accept the morph
>     - make the morph frontmost in the receiving project's world,
>     unless that project doesn't even have a world
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>     And other questions occur:
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>     - why limit this to morphs? Why not send arbitrary data from
>     project to project?
>     - is a morph a ui representation of some separate domain object?
>     Where does the domain object live?
>     - what if the sending project is in "grid-view mode" and the
>     receiving project is in "list-view mode"? Does sending a specific
>     morph make any sense?
>     - why assume the morph would be installed in the world at the
>     other end?
>     - do we assume the morph must be deleted from the sending world?
>     Dropping a morph on a PVM will send a *copy* to the other project.
>
>     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?
>
>     On 5/2/18 1:36 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:
>>     On 5/2/18, Bob Arning<arning315 at comcast.net> <mailto:arning315 at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>>     a Flap would do that
>>     Yes it does, but the new method discussed here will allow to send the
>>     morph to another project without leaving the current project.
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>>     In addition, depending on how it is implemented,  a script might send
>>     several morphs to different projects depending on their properties
>>     (e.g. moving task cards around for a project mgmt system).
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>>>     On 5/1/18 8:04 PM, Francisco Garau wrote:
>>>>     I use to like the squeak trash bin morph were you could recover previously
>>>>     deleted morphs.
>>>>
>>>>     How about a similar sort of morph that acts as a teleporter? You drop the
>>>>     morphs in one project and recover it from any other.
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