Suggestions: move examples from UIThemes class to ExampleBuilderMorph class

edmund

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Stef

On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:56 PM, DougEdmunds wrote:

> A couple of suggestions
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> Part 1.
> Move the methods in the UIThemes class, protocol 'examples' to
> ExampleBuilderMorph class, protocol 'examples'.
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> Rationale: Every one of these examples first creates an instance of
> ExampleBuilderMorph
> as the base class that the example is built on. These examples do not
> demonstrate
> anything about how to use UITheme.
>
> I made a file that duplicates the methods from UITheme class -examples- to
> ExampleBuilderMorph class -examples-, suitable for filein. Methods such as
> ExampleBuilderMorph class >>exampleBasicControls work fine,
> indicating they have no dependence on UITheme.
> The file's 347 lines, so I'm not posting it here, unless requested.
>
> Part 2.
> Then move ExampleBuilderMorph and ExampleRadioButtonModel from
> Polymorph-Widgets
> into a new package called Polymorph-Widgets-Examples.
>
> Rationale: This would be reduce the size of Polymorph-Widgets, and make it
> more
> obvious that there are some examples of the widgets to look at.
> UITheme class is not the place where one expects to find examples of
> buttons,
> checkboxes, etc. Also this would be consistent with other Morphic packages.
> (Morphic-MorphTreeWidget and Morphic-MorphTreeWidget-Examples)
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