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

[Hernan Wilkinson]

I use the halos when teaching for the students to see a way to get to the
code or objects from the UI. It is very useful when you are learning how
things work

Cheers!
Hernan.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:10 PM Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> And you can also embed morphs in text, I often open morphs in a workspace
> instead of opening in the world, you just have to instantiate the morph and
> print it with alt-p. For morphs embedded in text the handles are also very
> useful.
>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 2:25 PM Douglas Brebner via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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