Johannes Rasche
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Von: Johannes Rasche <johannesras...@mac.com>
Datum: 11. November 2011 22:13:26
An: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr
Betreff: [Pharo-project] Fwd: Re: TextMorph: what is the purpose of predecessor/successor?
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Betreff: Re: [Pharo-project] TextMorph: what is the purpose of predecessor/successor? Datum: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:34:47 +0100 Von: Johannes Rasche <johannesras...@me.com> Antwort an: johannesras...@me.com An: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr
as Igor mentioned yesterday it's useful for long texts. I would suggest, if the majority don't see the advantage of pred/succ, to create a subclass Johannes Am 11.11.11 14:43, schrieb Alain Plantec: > I forgot to say that I think we should simplify TextMorph as much as > possible. > I've already removed predecessor/successsor some time ago for my own > textmorph fork. > I open an isssue > Alain > > Le 11/11/2011 10:38, Igor Stasenko a écrit : >> Thanks. >> Yes, i remember i seen this before, but i had no idea how it >> implemented. >> >> On 10 November 2011 18:36, Alain Plantec<alain.plan...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi Igor, >>> See the screenshot (Squeak 3.6). >>> You can have several morphs editing the same text. >>> Each morph containing its own part of the text. >>> I guess predecessor ans successor are used in this context. >>> Cheers >>> >>> Alain >>> >>> Le 10/11/2011 16:50, Igor Stasenko a écrit : >>>> looks like the purpose is to make multiple morphs, displaying >>>> different (but adjacent) portions of one text.. >>>> >>>> But what i don't understand is what is the practical use of it? Is >>>> there an examples of such use of TextMorph(s)? >>>> As to me this looks a bit of over-enineering: >>>> morph represents a view of some model. >>>> Nothing prevents us from creating multiple different views of same >>>> model (a text in this case). And i don't get, what do we gain by >>>> letting them know about each other. >>>> If there is a need to have a coordination between views, i think it >>>> would be much simpler to have some centralized parent object/morph, >>>> which managing additional complexity related with such >>>> composition. >>>> >>>> >>>> The functionality seems to be working: >>>> in text morph's halo, click on its menu , and there will be >>>> 'add predecessor' >>>> and >>>> 'add successor' >>>> menu items, which creating a fresh text morphs over same text and put >>>> it in ?hand? >>>> >>>> i am clueless, what is purpose of this and whether it belongs to right >>>> place.. that's why i asking. >>>> (i would just throw it away ;) >>>> >>> >> >> > >