Stef,
Yes, what's lacking is the doc. The system in itself is pretty great, once you invest a ton of hours in lighting the dark corners (PluggableTextMorph, OMG, an MVC-Morphic beast ...)
How can I contribute to the book? I don't have a clue on how to login.
Also, I went through most of your material (Bots, Caro la tortue, other PDFs, well, in fact I siphoned all of the content and read like a mad man ;-) ).
There are a lot of treasures in there, especially the turtle geometry (I see that we have the same old book from 86 or so).
Statistics coupled with turtle geometry could do a lot of interesting things...
Philippe
2012/4/1 St�phane Ducasse
<stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>
On Apr 1, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Le 01/04/2012 15:22, St�phane Ducasse a �crit :
>> Well the problem is that Morph is so complex and the API totally obscure.
>
>
> I know I know, all this morphic stuff really really looks cryptic and
> dusty, refactoring was due for many years but did not take place until
> pharo. So it results in this big mess, but yet we can get something
> useable in Pharo.
yes (this is not such a mess, it is just lacking proper documentation).
> Some time I would love to document somewhere my finding to achieve a
> given result.
if you send some examples we will add them (or you could add them directly to the basicWidgets chapter).
> A kind of web service where each of us could document,
> then this document could turn in comment in each class... kind of magic
> stuff. May be the documentation class effort is the place to contribute,
> but my workflow does not really match it.
We started with benjamin to work on a basic widget chapter. I would love to document
the basic api of each of the basic widgets. The problem is that I have to learn it first.
So may be joining the effort on that chapter would be already a big plus.
Stef
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