- Luckily, my domain object's printString is what I want for the label of
the legend item. Thus I am able to pass it to #addColor:text: (which I took
a while to figure out can take any object for "text:"). I want to pass this
object, and not just the label text I want, because that would break the GT
Inspector flow. I think there is a missing dimension here for when we want
the item and the label to be different. In fact, drop lists in Pharo used to
work like this. I think the pattern is carried over from less dynamic or OO
languages. In Magritte3, I added #display: to field descriptions of the form
[ :domainObject | stringFormToUse ]
I have never thought about having the legend to contains meaningfull object.
Are you suggesting something like: #addColor:object:text: that will collocate the object being the legend label and colored box?
- #addColoredText:color: and #addColor:text: - do we really need both?
They are two different method. Consider:
b := RTLegendBuilder new.
b addColor: Color red text: 'a legend title'.
b addColoredText: 'a legend title' color: Color red.
b addColor: Color red text: 'a legend title'.
b addColoredText: 'a legend title' color: Color red.
It gives:
Maybe the names are not properly chosen. If you have better ones, would be great :-)
OT: Text builders seem inherently restrictive because they always seem to
insert a layer between the full power of the underlying objects and the part
that's been translated to the builders. I sense that it would be a game
changer (and not too hard) to hook the underlying objects together visually
a la Lively Kernel instead of implementing a visual or text builder. In
fact, I think that's what e.g. Morphic almost-already-is. It was even
alluded to in a few papers as right on the horizon. But it's on the Dreams
list for now.
I am not sure to understand. Which text builder are you referring to?
Anyway, thanks for Roassal. This is fun!
Thanks :-)
Alexandre
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Cheers,
Sean
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