[Cuis-dev] Mixing BitBlt and Vector PlacedMorphs

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Tommy,

Thanks for the detailed report! This helps a lot.

Still, I'll be away from my PC for a few days. Let me take a look during 
next week.

Thank you,

On 16/02/2022 08:15 p.m., Tommy Pettersson via Cuis-dev wrote:
> This is from a fresh pull of all repos.
> - cogspur/squeak 5.0-202003021730
> - Cuis6.0-5031.image
> - New changesets up to 5067-HelpMenu...
> - Load all TrueType Fonts
> - Open File List, pick Spacewar!.pck.st from TheCuisBook repo, and Install Package
>
> I tested a bit more. Turns out that I *can* make the game
> active by stepping to its window with ctrl-tab. Then I can
> play the game as usual, and it's as fast as usual. And if
> the pointer leaves, the game pauses.
>
> But I can't unpause or make the game active by clicking on
> the SpaceWar morph with the mouse. All mouse clicks goes
> right throught the SpaceWar morph, opening the world menu or
> the haloes for the world morph, or interacting with the
> window I have beneth the game. Clicking the icon for the
> game in the taskbar also doesn't work.
>
> This is exactly what happens if I just subclass the
> PlacedMorph and add `requiresVectorCanvas ^false`, and some
> other stuff that I don't fully understand yet about extent
> and bounds and things. That's why I was trying to figure out
> if I had just missed to add something that catches events in
> the morphs area, since they seem to fall through the morph,
> but I quickly realised that I know too little about the
> workings of morphs to solve this.
>
> If I change all requiresVectorCanvas to return true in all
> the game's morphs, activating and moving the game morph with
> the mouse works again, as well as the taskbar. But the
> rendering becomes really really slow, bacause I have not
> installed the vector graphics plugin.
>
> ________________
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 09:22:25PM +0100, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Strange.
>
> On my workstation, with Cuis6 with latest updates and Vector graphics,
> the keys are responding. It is rendered with VectorGraphics although it
> should not. Could it just be too slow on your workstation?
>
> Le 16/02/2022 à 20:15, Tommy Pettersson via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>>> When the mouse is moved away of the game play, the game is set on pause.
>>> You must move the mouse cursor into the game play, then you can use the keys
>> I know. It works perfectly without the vector graphics. With
>> vector graphics loaded, the game starts in stepping mode,
>> but does not respond to key or mouse, or even mouse leave,
>> so it never pauses.


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