On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Nicolas Cellier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Exactly : logicalRight can be different than physicalRight.
> If you tell me this distinction is useless, then I'll ask you to
> consider touch screen and other modern input devices.
> That's why I ask this community to reformulate and think.
>

Mmm, maybe we can work in little steps.  I think that renaming is a good
first step for a refactor.  To refactor code you need to understand it, and
the colors makes me not to understand it.


>
> Then you'll can argue at will whether the logical level shall be named
> #right #logicalRight or #blue, I don't care.
>

Then we can change it again.


>
> For newer kind of events (gestures), we have a more difficult dilemna:
> emulate the feel or use native OS facilities...
> The question is of same nature as native look.
> Even if we choose to rely on OS, we have to think of cross platform
> portability and ways to emulate missing capabilities.
> In other words, I doubt we can afford the elimination of a level of
> indirection.
>
> Maybe it's time to refactor indeed, but please, bring up your brain
> one level above this colour naming battle.
> Don't replay battles of the past, turn toward the future.
>

Oh, that was no my intention.  I didn't even know of past battles before
this thread.  I was only tired of unmeaningful colors.
Please, don't turn the discussion like that, I didn't mean that :S.

Guille


>
> Nicolas
>
> 2011/1/24 Geert Claes <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> > Guillermo Polito wrote:
> >>
> >> I hate yellowButtonPressed and redButtonPressed and blueButtonPressed
> >> messages.
> >>
> >> Why not lefClick, rightClick and "middleClick"?
> >>
> >
> > I agree that the meaning of the colors is no longer useful, although
> "hate"
> > is maybe a bit harsh :)
> >
> > Surely this has already been addressed in other environments?
> > http://api.jquery.com/mousedown api.jquery.com/mousedown  for example
> also
> > refers to the left, middle and right button.
> >
> > Even Apple's multi-touch "magic-mouse" talks about left and right-clicks
> > (which is ironic as they have long resisted to even add a second button)
> ...
> > but also mouse events for the "360° scroll", "Screen zoom" and
> "two-finger
> > swipe".
> > --
> > View this message in context:
> http://forum.world.st/What-about-a-little-rename-in-MouseEvent-tp3233363p3233916.html
> > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
> >
>
>

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