[Cuis-dev] Clicking the 'collapse' halo handle brings up the debugger

[Douglas Brebner]

On 05/04/2021 13:57, Pat Foley via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Why do we still have halos anyway? Almost the only thing I ever use 
> them for is getting an inspector, and I can think of better ways to 
> present that option (and the rest of the options in the debug and in 
> the helpfully titled "menu" handle). Maybe everyone else has lots of 
> uses for them (that are not served by the window frame or the window's 
> icons) but evidently no one has clicked on the collapse handle in a 
> while...

SystemWindows are not the only way to group Morphs. A lot of the tools 
made by the original Squeak devs used PasteUpMorph to group Morphs or 
just bare Morphs and halos are the best way to interact with those.


I don't actually like how SystemWindows are the go to for grouping 
Morphs. They lose a lot of power in exchange for convenience. IIRC, they 
were originally introduced to make it easier to port the existing dev 
tools from the MVC GUI, not as the standard way to make tools.