[self-interest] Filing Out A Composite Morph?

Josh Flowers joshflowers at mac.com
Mon Dec 13 17:55:18 UTC 2010


I took fairly comprehensive notes during the first two days and plan on re-
doing - with notes - my third and fourth days efforts.

Happy to have you put something up on the blog, but so far the notes are 
very stream of conscious.  Will definitely need some cleaning up before 
they're ready for public consumption.

> Great. Btw, I'd really like to push to you write up a description of this process you're going through (not just filing out, but the whole process of making the irc app) for the blog... doesn't have to be War and Peace, but it would be really useful to have it on record.
> 
> Russell
> 
> On 11/12/2010, at 2:56 AM, Josh Flowers wrote:
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>> If Jan's suggestion doesn't pan out, I'll work on getting you a copy of the snapshot.
>> 
>> Thanks Russell,
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
>> > I don't know why a morph should be any different to any other object from
>> > the point of view of the transporter.
>> > 
>> > Is the rawMorphs slot the only missing slot when you file in the .self
>> > file? Is the module of that slot correctly set?
>> > 
>> > Apart from that, not sure.
>> > 
>> > If you can get me the snapshot somehow I can try it myself and see if
>> > anything jumps out at me.
>> > 
>> > - Russell
>> > 
>> >> Does Self support filing out composited morphs? I composited a number of
>> >> morphs to create an irc chat UI, but I'm having troubles writing it out.
>> >> 
>> >> I turned an instance of the morph into a prototype; added it to a module;
>> >> setup the copy-down slots to Copydown parent: 'rowMorph', Copydown
>> >> selector: 'copyRemoveAllMorphs'... and I think that's about it.
>> >> 
>> >> The module files out and in without errors, but when I try and create an
>> >> instance of the prototype I get an error message about 'rawMorphs' being
>> >> missing. I can fix this by manually setting the irc morph's copy-down
>> >> attributes (they don't seem to copy over as part of the file-in/out
>> >> process) but then the original submorphs don't exist.
>> >> 
>> >> Besides having trouble describing the problem - am I doing something
>> >> wrong?
>> >> 
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>> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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