Thank you for this explanation 2014-12-31 23:47 GMT+01:00 Aliaksei Syrel <alex.sy...@gmail.com>:
> Bloc has a big future, for sure! I hope it will move Pharo to a very new > level! As Doru said, Brick was born out of necessity. More exactly because > of text resizing in Inspector. By default, if one wants to clip/resize text > in tabs she uses clippingBounds. And clippingBounds is called during... > what would it be?...during drawing! For example *TabExample open. *So > morphic (in some cases) calculates geometry of submorphs during drawing. > And very first version of Brick was build to shrink/clip tabs with content > during layouting and not during drawing :) Simple like that. > > Cheers, > Alex > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> > wrote: > >> Of course, I meant to say that Brick is the incremental solution, not >> Bloc :) >> >> Doru >> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Brick was born out of necessity. It is a thin layer on top of basic >>> Morphic that is supposed to coexist with Morphic but not be bound by >>> various problems Morphic has (such as the layout). Alex Syrel built it >>> primarily for performance reasons and it was critical to make GTSpotter >>> work. In the meantime, also the pager interface of GTInspector is using it >>> as well. Currently, Brick is able to draw itself on Athens. >>> >>> About the relation with Bloc: we definitely do not want to end up with >>> two solutions. Building Brick was a great learning experience. Bloc >>> followed a rewrite from scratch approach, while Bloc is more incremental >>> (it subclasses Morph) but it works in production. As both are able to work >>> with Athens and both have local coordinates, I think it's a great >>> opportunity to learn from both and find the one path that will be >>> integrated in Pharo. Alex will be at the PharoDays and if Alain is >>> available, he will work with Alain. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Doru >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:30 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Le 31/12/14 11:58, Nicolai Hess a écrit : >>>> >>>>> I took a look at GLMBrick and I am wondering what is the intent: >>>>> >>>>> - a temporary solution until this functions/behavior are included in >>>>> Morphic >>>>> >>>> would be nice. >>>> >>>>> - a layer on top of morphic without the intent to do this in Morphic >>>>> any time. >>>>> - a temporary solution until this functions/behaviors are implemented >>>>> with bloc >>>>> >>>> >>>> I hope the third but we will need more people participating to Bloc. >>>> >>>> I should continue to work on the documentation.... but it takes time. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> nicolai >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> www.tudorgirba.com >>> >>> "Every thing has its own flow" >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Every thing has its own flow" >> > >
