[Cuis-dev] Turning morphs back into source code

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Hm, do you have any examples? I don’t think you can build anything very
useful by manipulation with the mouse without writing code… you can add
submorphs to a morph, change colors and sizes, … not much more, I think…
nothing like a browser or an inspector. Maybe you should checkout Fabrik,
eToys, and other similar ideas.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 22:27 Ian Jeffries via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm experimenting with turning morphs created via direct manipulation back
> into source code and am looking for some tips.
>
> As an example use case: I'm making a world map and would like to put my
> house in it. The image will be pretty simple: just three or four
> rectangles for the house, a rectangle for the garage, and a few circles to
> represent trees. Certainly I could just write this in code, but it seems
> like more fun to use the direct manipulation features of Morphic to create
> the scene (duplicate, rotate, etc), then serialize that scene to code.
>
> Here's the twist: I'm already familiar with Cuis-UI-Packager
> <https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-UI/blob/a56d748ac25fadf3f1910f0666b7ea77bb3df286/tools/UI-Packager.pck.st> which
> is very cool, but my goal here is different. I'd like the result to be
> source code, not object files, ideally similar to what I would have written
> by hand.
>
> First question: is there a term in the Smalltalk community or the academic
> literature for this task? Specifically for turning runtime objects back
> into idiomatic source code. (I realize this problem probably can't be
> solved in the general case since it's such a hard one-- one of the reasons
> I'd like to read more about it).
>
> Second question: there isn't already a package for this in Cuis (or even
> in Pharo etc)? I wouldn't think so and can't find one by searching, but
> wanted to check.
>
> I did find Morphic Designer
> <https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/designer>
> in Squeak, but that's a little different since you build the morphs in a
> specialized app. I'm looking for something that you can target any
> supported runtime morph with (though I don't care how small the set of
> supported morphs is, any example would be helpful even if it only supported
> one or two).
>
> I've got a little demo working for myself which has also given me some
> implementation questions, but I'll save those for a later thread.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian Jeffries
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