On Nov 10, 2015, at 16:03, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

I have taken a look at rubric elemenst, they look even more messier than morphic. I can do something similar with textMorph without messing with announcers. It looks to me a bit too much to send an announcement on a key event.

Anyway I will give a try at textMorph and will go from there, probably subclass it and create my own morph for time input.

"and it got cleaned :)

Stef"

Well my experience with other language has taught me GUI APIs are generally a nightmare to work with, the only exception to this rule was DELPHI, those guys were just awesome at GUI design. VCL was simple yet incredible flexible, I would even dare say the smalltalky thing I have used. It takes a ton of effort and expertise to get it that good.

I hope Bloc makes a bit more sense than Morphic, Rubric and Spec.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:59 PM Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

On 10-11-15 18:16, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
> What I want is to create a morph that has the ability to input text from
> the user that formats it automatically and allows for a limited amount of
> characters.

You might want to take a look at RubFloatingEditorBuilder.
In #buildEditor you see how to react to announcements send by the
RubScrolledTextMorph. If you do The Right Thing in whenKeystroke:
(like #setTextWith: and fixing the selection and cursor position)
you'll be able to do what you want.

Stephan