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marcel.taeumel

Squeak w/o System Windows

Hi, there!

For some reason, I was thinking about window management. Here is a little experiment: no-window-experiment.cs

It makes several standard tools, i.e. the StringHolder sub-classes, open without a window. You have to use Morphic's halo concept to move/resize/close them.

Only a few changes were necessary. By the way, it is challenging to get the height of our main docking bar. MorphicToolBuilder >> #open:label: also assumed that #open: returns a system window, which is not always the case.

Screen real estate for the win!! ^__^

Best,
Marcel

Karl Ramberg

Re: Squeak w/o System Windows

Cool experiment.

Reminds me of the Fabrik stuff Dan Ingalls made where you could open lists and panes based on queries, and build user interfaces on the fly.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1175

Best,

Karl

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:54 PM, marcel.taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi, there!

For some reason, I was thinking about window management. Here is a little
experiment: no-window-experiment.cs
<http://forum.world.st/file/n4894295/no-window-experiment.cs>

It makes several standard tools, i.e. the StringHolder sub-classes, open
without a window. You have to use Morphic's halo concept to
move/resize/close them.

<http://forum.world.st/file/n4894295/squeak-no-windows.png>

Only a few changes were necessary. By the way, it is challenging to get the
height of our main docking bar. MorphicToolBuilder >> #open:label: also
assumed that #open: returns a system window, which is not always the case.

Screen real estate for the win!! ^__^

Best,
Marcel

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timrowledge

Re: Squeak w/o System Windows

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> On 11-05-2016, at 4:54 AM, marcel.taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi, there!
>
> For some reason, I was thinking about window management.

I’d suggest that this might be part of an path into getting those little buggers into host windows… it’s about time something was done.

tim
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