Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Timeline editors/browsers in Smalltalk? Message-ID: <89257.111146UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> Date: 14 Sep 89 15:11:46 GMT References: <57654@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <22135@cup.portal.com> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 18 It seems to me that there could be a reusable IconCollection or something. This would be any Collection where each object has associated with it some graphical depiction information. If the Collection is ordered, then sending the IconCollection a displayYourself message would draw the icons in some kind of ordered way, and allow the user to shuffle them around by selecting and dragging with the mouse. As a Smalltalk beginner, I think it would be interesting to see a thread in this group where designers proposed a new class, and we argue awhile about its merits and demerits, gradually converging and then building it. The final product would be in the Smalltalk Public Domain. One side note. So long as it stays pretty small, I hope we just keep any code or code skeletons created here. But eventually, it'd have to be posted to smalltalk.sources, I guess. (No, there isn't yet such a group 8-) lee