[Cuis-dev] Is it possible to collapse the Windows in the old fashioned way (title only) ?

Gerald Klix Gerald.Klix at klix.ch
Tue Aug 24 02:20:13 PDT 2021


He did something completely different.
Actually his port creates multiple instances of
the world-morph and enables the user to switch between
these worlds. This feature was called "Projects" in Squeak
I renamed it to "Worlds" in Haver.

David's repo is here:
https://github.com/coderocket/Cuis-Smalltalk-Projects


HTH,

Gerald



On 8/24/21 11:13 AM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> If the feature already exists I will definitely try it next week !
> I am very curious, I think it can work for me. Need to try to be sure.
> 
> But, I can't find the relevant package, I don't see it in David T. Lewis 
> GitHub.
>  From Gerald link I assume it should be called Worlds, is it ?
> 
> Bye
> Nicola
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/24/21 10:30 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi Hilare,
>>
>> On 8/24/21 10:22 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> The usability issue with the title only windows is that they are most 
>>> of the time hidden behind other windows and you just lost track of 
>>> them. I am not sure you will still like them after some time using them.
>>>
>>> On think that may be nice, but I think in the context of educational 
>>> use, is the project window à la Squeak. Someone in the list, David ?, 
>>> implemented it for Cuis.
>> Yep, he did a nice job. I ported them to Haver added some management
>> UI and other niceties. Including some derived classes that record
>> all VM events and can replay them later. Alas til now I was
>> too lazy to document them.
>>
>> See: https://hg.sr.ht/~cy-de-fect/HaverOnCuis/browse/haver/worlds
>>>
>>> Hilaire
>>>
>>> Le 23/08/2021 à 21:51, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Looking at old Smalltalk videos and through the LaLonde book I see 
>>>>> it was possible
>>>>> to collapse a Windows keeping only its title on the screen.
>>>>
>>>> I for one never really liked window-shade or title-only. 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Gerald
> 


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