Highlights:
- BlCornerRadii - 1st class corners - yay to the death of cryptic arrays for
this kind of thing :)
Questions:
- How would one do e.g. a ticking clock in Bloc? The only possibly relevant
example I see is BlAnimatedCursor. Is that a typical usage? One thing that
I'm not sure how to translate to a BlElement is that the cursor seems to be
responsible for starting and stopping the animation via #activateOn:, which
doesn't exist for an element. How would one prevent an element's animation
from continuing to run after a space was closed?
- BlElement has 278 instance-side methods. A frequent battle cry against
Morphic was the bloated Morph class with 899. Definitely an improvement, but
are we "there yet"?
- Does Bloc implement its own keybinding outside of "Keymapping" e.g.
BlShortcut? If so, why? Will it ultimately be a replacement?
- In BlTextEditElement class>>#exampleText, text construction seems awfully
complex (`text := BrRopedText rope: (BrCollectionRope collection: (String
loremIpsum: 30)). text attributes: { BrFontWeightAttribute bold }.`. How
does that way contrast to e.g. `'X' asRopedText`?
Problems:
BlBasicExamples
- #exampleShapes, select the yellow shape with red border -> inspector ->
Transformations Tab -> Click on Composition -> "ShouldNotImplement:
#multiplyOn: should not have been implemented in BlCompositeTransformation"
- #exampleImageBackground -> "ShouldBeImplemented: #fillPath:withForm:
should have been implemented in SpartaCairoFillPainter"
BlTextEditElement class>>#exampleText
- insert some characters and then press [delete] -> "Error: Illegal
sub-sequence end index: 44"
- There is aBlSelectionHandler, but I can't seem to select any of the
text
BrAttributeRopeExamples#>>simpleRope -> inspect return value -> In
inspector, click on "Children" tab -> "Error: Improper store into indexable
object"
- In BlLinearLayoutExamples class>>#exampleVerticalLeftCenterRightRTL,
- the red sub-element does `c linear horizontal alignLeft`, which is
then overridden by its parent's `BlLinearLayout vertical "rightToLeft"`. Was
it intentional to show the precedence because I found it confusing when an
element that sent #alignLeft showed up on the right!
- the yellow sub-element does not appear at all. Maybe it should do a `c
vertical exact: 100.` like its siblings?
- All BlAnimationExamples lead to deprecation warnings and DNU's, but *do
not even attempt* #exampleBallsAnim or face endlessly multplying debugger
windows!
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Cheers,
Sean
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