[Cuis] Status of Morphic?

[Phil (list)]

On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 22:20 +0200, Peter van Rooijen wrote:
> Not sure if this is related but InspectorWindow does not cut
> off the text in the title bar of the window eagerly enough.
> 

That's exactly the issue I'm referring to (though it is larger in scope
than just title bars.)

> 
> Take an inspector whose title is too long for the window
> and see how the text is cut off mid-character at the right
> border of the window. Move the window around and it leaves
> a trail, exactly where the character pixels touch the side.
> 

Yup.

> 
> BTW, the devoweling of inspector titles I strongly dislike.
> If that could be taken out, great. Or perhaps someone has
> real good use for that?
> 

I'm not wild about it either but in many cases I think it is probably
better than just truncating the string.  I think that's one of those
things where a better approach would be nice but so far no one has come
up with one...

> 
> Thanks, Peter
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         An old issue with some new info...
>         
>         On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 15:11 -0400, Phil (list) wrote:
>         > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 10:37 -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>         > > Hi Phil,
>         > >
>         > > (inline)
>         > > On 3/9/2015 6:54 AM, Phil (list) wrote:
>         > > > I've been testing some of my code after migrating to the
>         local
>         > > > coordinate system and am running into a few things:
>         > > >
>         > > > 1) Morph stepping appears to be non-functional (at least
>         in terms of
>         > > > running the code as-is from Cuis 4.0)
>         > >
>         > > You already found #stepAt: . In any case, the "message
>         names" tool is
>         > > your friend.
>         > >
>         >
>         > As was FrameRateMorph.
>         >
>         > > > 2) Halos are behaving badly on occasion... drawing
>         artifacts, problems
>         > > > resizing, experiencing the odd image crash here and
>         there.
>         > >
>         > > Please, steps to reproduce.
>         > >
>         >
>         > Working on narrowing down.
>         
>         At least the drawing artifacts issue doesn't appear to be Halo
>         specific.
>         I've been seeing it on occasion with other kinds of Morphs.
>         Today it
>         finally dawned on me what is going on: Morphs are drawing
>         outside of
>         their bounds.  I think I have a reproducible scenario: in the
>         Workspace
>         type ReparseAfterSourceEditing, select and right
>         click->Smalltalk
>         Options->Method Source with it.  On my computer, the default
>         window size
>         results in the title text being drawn well outside of the
>         Morph so
>         there's no mistaking what's going on.  Drag the window around
>         and notice
>         the artifacts.  I think Halos and other Morphs are doing the
>         same thing
>         though less obviously.
>         
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