HaloMorph
Last updated at 4:59 pm UTC on 16 January 2006
HaloMorph provides a Halo of handles for its target morph. Dragging, duplicating, rotating, and resizing to be done by mousing down on the appropriate handle. There are also handles for help and for a menu of infrequently used operations.
To create you own custom halo selection and layout evaluate the following in a Workspace.
Preferences editCustomHalos
Then edit the method to for example (a minimal solution)
customHaloSpecs
"Intended for you to modify to suit your personal preference. What is implemented in the default here is just a skeleton; in comment at the bottom of this method are some useful lines you may wish to paste in to the main body here, possibly modifying positions, colors, etc.."
^ #(
(addDismissHandle: left top (red muchLighter) 'Halo-Dismiss')
(addGrowHandle: right bottom (yellow) 'Halo-Scale')
(addScaleHandle: right bottom (lightOrange) 'Halo-Scale')
(addDupHandle: right top (green) 'Halo-Dup')
(addRecolorHandle: left bottom (green muchLighter lighter) 'Halo-Recolor')
)
Choose "accept" and evaluate in the Workspace:
Preferences installCustomHaloSpecs
To check which specs are installed do evaluate
Preferences haloSpecifications
The above may be done as well through Preferences halos.
To change the size of the halos change the class method #initialize
From
initialize
"HaloMorph initialize"
HandleSize _ 16
to for example
initialize
"HaloMorph initialize"
HandleSize _ 32
And evaluate
HaloMorph initialize
Note on the implementation:
The method #installHaloSpecsFromArray: uses the class HaloSpec.
Hannes Hirzel