On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Jeff G <jgon.in.can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > So I am working on porting over a small simulation I wrote for fun in java > to squeak, and I am actually stuck at a point before I can get any real work > done. The basics of the user interface I would like to offer consist of a > SystemWindow containing a custom morph that will handle all of the drawing > and updating of the simulation, and some buttons for altering the parameters > of the simulation. The morph would take up the largest portion of the > screen, say 3/4. > > I have been wrestling with SystemWindow and Toolbuilder for the last little > while and I feel like I must be overlooking something easy to get started > with. If I create a system window and add a placeholder morph to it, with a > frame of (0...@0 corner: 0...@1) the window becomes blue as it takes on the > color of the morph I added and the morph itself becomes white. I would like > the morph to retain its color when I add it to the window, and not have the > window alter its own color either. > > Second, if I were to add to morphs side by side, one with a frame of > (0...@0corner: 0...@1) > and the other with (0...@0 corner: 1...@1), then I will have a splitter in > between the morphs and any attempt to drag this splitter results in a > debugger popping up. > > I have been attempting to learn Toolbuilder, but it seems very focused on > just that, tools, and I didn't see an appropriate spec for adding just a > custom subclass of morph. I may have overlooked something easy here to do > so, and so my spec would consist of a pluggableWindow, with its children > being a pluggablePanelSpec with pluggableButtons as its children, and some > other spec representing the custom morph as the second child of the > windowSpec. > > Any help or pointers towards creating a basic system window with a morph, > or a couple of morphs in it, respecting colors and layouts, and being > resized with the splitters would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you very much for your time, > Hi, Take a look at: - http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/search/label/gui - http://book.pharo-project.org/book/GUI/PolymorphTutorial/Layout/ - http://book.pharo-project.org/book/GUI/TypicalPolymorphApplication Cheers, Laurent Laffont http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/ http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ > Jeff G! > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > >
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