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

Nicola Mingotti nmingotti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 02:33:30 PDT 2021


Thank you for the link Gerald. True, that is different. Interesting, but 
different.
Put that into my notes, it can be useful in the future.


Nicola


On 8/24/21 11:20 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 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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