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Steve Quezadas-3

rotating a morph through messaging

I am experimenting with pharo right now, particularly with Morphs. The
weird thing is that some morphs can have a rotation halo and others do not.

This has a "rotate halo":
bar := EllipseMorph new.
bar openInWorld.

This does not:
foo := Morph new.
foo openInWorld

Am I missing something? Also, how do I send message "rotate" to a morph?
I can't seem to find a "rotate" method anywhere in the browser.

- Steve

Ben Coman

Re: rotating a morph through messaging

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 04:24, Steve Quezadas <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I am experimenting with pharo right now, particularly with Morphs. The
> weird thing is that some morphs can have a rotation halo and others do not.
>
> This has a "rotate halo":
> bar := EllipseMorph new.
> bar openInWorld.
>
> This does not:
> foo := Morph new.
> foo openInWorld
>
> Am I missing something? Also, how do I send message "rotate" to a morph?
> I can't seem to find a "rotate" method anywhere in the browser.

I don't know anything about this area, but here is how I discovered something to get you started...
(somewhat recursively...) open new halos on the ellipse-rotation-halo,
then click the spanner halo to Debug > Inspect Morph.

To confirm you are in the right place confirm you can see...

owner ==> HaloMorph.

extension > balloonText ==> 'Rotate'
Now dive into... extension > eventHandler > subscriptions, and you'll see a Dictionary with three items...
#mouseDown > Items > aMorphEventSubscription > selector ==> #startRot:with:
#mouseMove > Items > aMorphEventSubscription > selector ==> #doRot:with:
#mouseUp > Items > aMorphEventSubscription > selector ==> #endInteraction

HTH,

cheers -ben

K K Subbu

Re: rotating a morph through messaging

In reply to this post by Steve Quezadas-3

On 31/12/18 1:54 AM, Steve Quezadas wrote:

> I am experimenting with pharo right now, particularly with Morphs. The
> weird thing is that some morphs can have a rotation halo and others do not.
>
> This has a "rotate halo":
> bar := EllipseMorph new.
> bar openInWorld.
>
> This does not:
> foo := Morph new.
> foo openInWorld

A morph has to implement #prepareToRotate method for rotate Halo button
to appear and also implement rotationDegrees: method to do the actual
transformation. Otherwise, you can add a flex shell to the morph and
request it to rotate it.

Morph does not support rotation, so there is no rotation button in its
halo. EllipseMorph has a dummy rotationDegrees: method. CircleMorph and
PolygonMorph go the whole way.

foo := Morph new addFlexShell openCenteredInWorld
foo topRendererOrSelf rotationDegrees: 45

bar := (PolygonMorph
vertices: {261@400. 388@519. 302@595}
color: Color blue
borderWidth: 2
borderColor: Color black) openInWorld.
bar rotationDegrees: 45

HTH .. Subbu