Hi Phil. Excellent summary of the current mess! Yes, TextMorphs are the "views" , Editors handle the insertion/selection/menu logic, and Paragraphs lay out the text. I've replaced Paragraph, with Pango Layouts to reuse a more customizable layout engine, until some kind soul rewrites completely Paragraph (and friends) to be as easy to use (and powerfull) as Pango (which i doubt it will happen in the next decade). Denis, unfortunately i had to handle other stuff related to my phd, and still couldn't release Gaucho/Shapes, I'm working on it now again. Here's a presentation i gave @ the pharo conf [1]. Glad to hear that you want to try to use it for Presently, will be out soon. [1] http://app.sliderocket.com:80/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=fcff251e-29cd-49eb-89b3... On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:

So, there is the damn caret drawing code:

Paragraph>>displaySelectionInLine: line on: aCanvas | leftX rightX w caretColor | selectionStart ifNil: [^self]. "No selection" aCanvas isShadowDrawing ifTrue: [ ^self ]. "don't draw selection with shadow" selectionStart = selectionStop ifTrue: ["Only show caret on line where clicked"

selectionStart textLine ~= line ifTrue: [^self]] ifFalse: ["Test entire selection before or after here"

(selectionStop stringIndex < line first or: [selectionStart stringIndex > (line last + 1)]) ifTrue: [^self]. "No selection on this line" (selectionStop stringIndex = line first and: [selectionStop textLine ~= line]) ifTrue: [^self]. "Selection ends on line above" (selectionStart stringIndex = (line last + 1) and: [selectionStop textLine ~= line]) ifTrue: [^self]]. "Selection begins on line below" leftX := (selectionStart stringIndex < line first ifTrue: [line ] ifFalse: [selectionStart ])left. rightX := (selectionStop stringIndex > (line last + 1) or: [selectionStop stringIndex = (line last + 1) and: [selectionStop textLine ~= line]]) ifTrue: [line right] ifFalse: [selectionStop left]. selectionStart = selectionStop ifTrue: [rightX := rightX + 1. w := self caretWidth. caretRect := (leftX-w) @ line top corner: (rightX+w)@ line bottom. self showCaret ifFalse:[^self]. caretColor := self insertionPointColor. 1 to: w do: [:i | "Draw caret triangles at top and bottom"

aCanvas fillRectangle: ((leftX - w + i - 1) @ (line top + i - 1) extent: ((w - i) * 2 + 3) @ 1) color: caretColor. aCanvas fillRectangle: ((leftX - w + i - 1) @ (line bottom - i) extent: ((w - i) * 2 + 3) @ 1) color: caretColor]. aCanvas fillRectangle: (leftX @ line top corner: rightX @ line bottom) color: caretColor] ifFalse: [caretRect := nil. aCanvas fillRectangle: (leftX @ line top corner: rightX @ line bottom) color: self selectionColor]

Paragraph class>>insertionPointColor has the color. I was fed up of blue, turned it red :-) This one is hardcoded and could take a hint from the selection color twiceDarker for example.

Phil

2012/7/20 Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com<mailto:dionisiydk@gmail.com>> Hello

2012/7/20 Fernando Olivero <fernando.olivero@usi.ch<mailto:fernando.olivero@usi.ch>> Hi Sean, you can take a look at Athens-PangoCairo (in squeaksource).

Using NativeBoost, i'm using the Pango layout library [1], and the Pango-Cairo binding [2], to avoid laying out text using the outdated (and messy) stuff in the image.

Check out the classes: ParagraphDescription & AthensPangoCairoParagraph.

I'm using them as the basis for the TextShape,LabelShape, and EditableTextShape in Shapes / Gaucho ( using TextEditor, SingleLineEditor ).

Maybe somebody can do the same for Morphic? use Pango to layout the text, and code a new TextMorph on top of it?

How I can try your code? Do you have ready image to play with it?

I am very interested with clean and simple alternative to morphic. I want it for Presenty framework.

(But I really like morphic as live user interface environment)

Best regards, Denis

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