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

Juan Vuletich JuanVuletich at zoho.com
Thu Jan 13 11:21:07 PST 2022


On 1/6/2022 6:49 PM, ken.dickey at whidbey.com wrote:
> 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 Depricated/superceded packages also include Morphic-ColorEditor and 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
>

Arranging stuff to tidy the system is always important! Thanks for doing 
this.

Cheers,

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