[Cuis-dev] Talking about Layouts

[Dan Norton]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:50:26 -0700
ken.dickey at whidbey.com wrote:

> On 2020-04-28 07:04, Dan Norton via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:05:28 +0200
> > Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:  
> 
> >> Which of padding or attraction is the most well known term in GUI
> >> construction? It could help to decide.  
> 
> I went for "attraction" because "Padding" is usually used opposite to 
> current Cuis: "padding" on the left moves object to the right.  
> Confusing to me.
> 
> New method names means we can deprecate and have the old methods
> still work during the transformation/update.
> 
> >> > Options include treating the Morph's width and height as fixed or
> >> > proportional to the LayoutMorph's extent.  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> What about "Minor or Perpendicular axis/direction" ?  
> 
> "Perpendicular" is good, but long to type.
> 
> What about just talking about the layout axis?
> 
> Instead of #attraction: in both cases, perhaps:
> 
>    LayoutMorph >> axisEdgeWeight:
> 
>    LayoutSpec >> offAxisEdgeWeight:
> 

The above names are good.

> Weight has the advantage that range 0.0 .. 1.0 still makes sense.
> 
> Which do you like better?
> 
> -KenD