[plt-scheme] Re: Changing the draw behaviour of a selected editor snip

Hi Matthew,

It occurs to me that I'll need to duplicate pasteboard to make the
changes anyway!

I'll see what I can do.

Thanks again,

Stephen

On Monday, November 9, 2009, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> The way that a selection is drawn is currently not an overrideable
> method. It's built into the `draw' method in
> "collects/mred/private/wxme/pasteboard.ss".
>
> If you'd like to change "pasteboard.ss" to add a method, I'd be willing
> to apply a patch.
>
> More generally, if you think it would be easier to work at the same
> level as "pasteboard.ss" and "text.ss" (reusing part of the
> "pasteboard.ss" implementation, but not all of it), I think it would
> make sense to add "grid.ss" as a third kind of built-in `editor<%>'.
>
> At Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:54:46 +0000, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to Change the draw behaviour of a selected editor snip in a
>> pasteboard%.
>>
>> I am making a datagrid editor on top of pasteboard and editor-snip
>> because I don't want to duplicate functionality.
>>
>> My problem is how I can determine where the 'compass point' square
>> dots that are used to show an editor snip is selected are drawn- so I
>> can override with my own draw method(invert).
>>
>> Any pointers gratefully accepted.
>>
>> Thanks, Stephen
>>
>> ps code
>>  http://code.google.com/p/projects-project/source/browse/trunk/gui/DataGrid.ss
>>
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