On 6 February 2013 16:05, Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cool :)
>
> We really need to kill this ugly monster, and make it turn into a nice
> butterfly for 3.0 :)
>
>
> Just a tiny question: Shouldn't the code belong to RMoD team instead of Igor
> on SmalltalkHub ?

i am not sure about it. right now it is developed by Denis and
Tristan, who are not members of rmod team.
btw thanks for question: it raising interesting question about
smalltalkhub functionality: it would be nice if
project ownership can be transferred between groups/individuals
without physically copying files.

>
> Ben
>
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi, today,   me, Tristan and Camillo took some overview on existing
> code and discussed further steps.
>
> TxAttributes
> 'contents' should be private (no getter/setter)
>
> because if you can directly manipulate the underlying collection, then
> what is the point of having separate class?
>
> Text Attributes in general:
>
> - we discussed and decided that it would be better that model will
> keep abstract attributes for text , like
>    - bold
>    - italic
>    - font family name
>
> the view then can compute the real font to use, but model don't have
> to deal with real font(s).
>
> This will imply having more complex attribute(s): you will be forced
> to visit them all to determine all of the font properties
> of a final font to use.
>
> The attributes in span should behave like a set (you cannot apply same
> attribute once),
> and hence implement #= and #hash properly.
>
> Also, i think, since neither bold, nor italic attributes don't need to
> be represented by multiple instances of same class,
> we could use convenience methods (by introducing them) in TxAttribute
> class to get a singletons for those ones, e.g.:
>
> selection applyAttribute: TxAttribute bold
>
> Layout:
> - right now, when you do layout it will split spans of txmodel. Which
> should not happen.
>
> We discussed about it and agreed that layouts(views) should not modify
> anything in text model.
> Instead the information about where line has to be split (like when
> you need to wrap a text) should be kept
> separately by a view.
>
> We thought that it would be nicer to implement a new span type
> (layoutspan), which will hold
> an text-interval (pos1, pos2) and probably any additional information
> (like caching the width/height)
> to not recalculate this stuff if nothing changed in model.
>
>
> We did some cosmetic changes to configuration.. to merge Tristan's
> code into it and load most recent packages:
>
> Gofer it
> smalltalkhubUser: 'sig' project: 'TxText';
> package: 'ConfigurationOfTxText';
> load.
>
> (ConfigurationOfTxText project version: '0.3') load: 'Tests'
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

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