[Cuis-dev] Renaming several fundamental Morph classes

[Mariano Montone]

Nico,

for your information, I just replaced WidgetMorph with BoxedMorph in my
files and it solved all my problems. It will likely solve most of your
issues too.

Cheers,

Mariano

El 5/1/22 a las 17:12, Nicolás Papagna Maldonado escribió:
> I second Mariano's request!
> 
> I don't really know what should I do to fix my packages.
> 
> Related to that, please check an email I sent a couple of days ago
> ("[Proposal] Keep a changelog").
> I believe that would make the life of all of us who want to improve Cuis
> a little easier when this kind of change happens.
> 
> Best,
> Nico PM
> 
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 5:09 PM Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     several packages of mine have stopped working on Cuis6 because of the
>     Morphic changes.
> 
>     I cannot find the email with the final changes. Is there a list with the
>     final changes somewhere?
> 
>     And can I apply the renames blindly, or almost blindly? Like say,
>     replace all mentions of WidgetMorph in my files with BoxedMorph,
>     etc, etc.
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     Mariano
> 
>     El 21/12/21 a las 16:02, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev escribió:
>     > Hi Folks,
>     >
>     > It has become apparent that some class names I chose some time ago are
>     > not meaningful enough. The most confusing is the meaning I assumed for
>     > "Widget". Decades ago, Widget meant "UI element in some library".
>     Today
>     > it means "Anything the user can interact with". So, I want to do the
>     > following renames:
>     >
>     > MovableMorph    -> MorphicWidget
>     > WidgetMorph      -> GUIControlMorph
>     > KernelMorph       -> SpecialMorph
>     > WorldMorph        -> MorphicWorld
>     > PasteUpMorph   -> PlaygroundMorph
>     >
>     > I hope these convey meaning more effectively.
>     >
>     > There will be impact on some packages. I have changesets ready to be
>     > applied for all packages in repos in the Cuis-Smalltalk organization.
>     >
>     > Before applying all this:
>     > Do you like the new names? Do you know better ones to suggest?
>     > Any other thoughts?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
> 
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