[Cuis-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: Cuis-Smalltalk-UI

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Along with The Great Renaming, Hilaire and I have done a bit of 
refactoring of Morphic-Misc1 and Morphic-Widgets-Extras to provide 
Morphic UI widgets and components for general use.

We wanted to get rid of clutter, help to make things more bite-sized 
digestible, and serve as a base for more Vector Graphic UI components.

The new packages are intended to replace Morphic-Misc1 and 
Morphic-Widgets-Extras with a more useful set of widgets and widget 
components for Morphic authoring.

Depricated/superceded packages also include Morphic-ColorEditor and 
Morph-MetaProperties.

These packages are written for Cuis 6.0.

To use, you should change to your Cuis-Smalltalk directory and
   git clone https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-UI

Morphs considered as components are in packages in the 'lib' directory

   Feature require: 'UI-Components'.

Morphs considered tools (LayoutEditor, ColorEditor, MetaProperties, ..) 
are in packages in the 'tools' directory

   Feature require: 'UI-Tools'.

Soon, the Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev scripts will be updated (e.g. 
pullAllRepos.sh and friends) as well as an updated 'AllPackages' 
Feature.

The idea is to allow folks using the now deprecated
  'Morphic-Misc1'
  'Morphic-Widgets-Extras'
  'Morphic-ColorEditor'
  'Morph-MetaProperties'
repos a couple of weeks to update and test their packages, after which a 
prePackageInstall script will issue a warning on loading these old 
packages.

Note that there has been a slight renaming to allow either older or 
newer packages to load.  E.g.
    OLD                     NEW
'Morph-MetaProperties' 'Morphic-MetaProperties'
'Morphic-ColorEditor'  'Color-Edit-Panel'


Please take a look, try things out, and report.

Thanks again to the entire Cuis Community!
-KenD