[Cuis-dev] Renaming several fundamental Morph classes

[Nicolás Papagna Maldonado]

Thanks for the pointers Mariano! :)

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 7:02 PM Mariano Montone <marianomontone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> > Nicolás Papagna
>
>

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Nicolás Papagna
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