fernando now we should find a path to slowly changing the system to incorporate some of your changes. Because we cannot rewrite everything as you did (at least I cannot :)). Stef On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:26 AM, Fernando Olivero wrote:
No more HandMorph taking care of everything!
I found a use case for the reification of the user interface in Gaucho.
In Gaucho, i have a user interface, which has attached peripherals: such as displays, mouse, keyboard, etc... And each peripheral takes care of the proper event, dispatched by the user interface ( which receives the VM events).
With this scheme, you have more flexibility because you can plug/unplug peripheral devices as needed.
For example, i'm coding a Gaucho Login Display. that presents the available sessions . I decided to use only keyboard based navigation, so to disable the mouse i simply unplug the mouse from the user interface ( as opposed to hack my way around HandMorph or PasteUpMorph).
GauchoDisplayLogin>> initializeAttachedTo: aGUserInterface | mouse | super initializeAttachedTo: aGUserInterface. mouse := userInterface peripheralDeviceNamed: #mouse. mouse notNil ifTrue:[ mouse dettach ].
Regards, Fernando