Notices by Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one), page 2

that looks simple enough hopefully

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Now for the next logical conclusion: creating a theme :blobcatsip:

would be nice if it could actually do static type checking so that this couldn’t happen

(if you wonder: yes, you can actually import multiple TTFs for variants of the same font and it will respect them)

brb doing some research

Another problem I see with Smalltalk: if any object can send messages to every other object… how do you know which one is doing what?

*opens Cuis Smalltalk*

“hey, it might look pretty ugly, but it looks less ugly than it used to and the ideas seem fancy”

*proceeds to read quotes from Morphic (co-creator?) dev John Maloney and actual Alan Kay prasing its aesthetics*

wha- :blobcatverifiedfake:

you can check what I’m talking about at https://cuis.st/

OK, I have to say: it’s still not ideal. You can still have compiled methods that I don’t know how to introspect with prettified code like in the System Browser. You can still mess up too hard with the UI itself without any undo option. And on top of that, you lose the ability to save morphs into files (unless I’m missing something)…

But it feels like it’s the closest any environment has been from being truly user-programmable imho. I’m actually not struggling too much to understand it, just asking it to show me how it works, and copying stuff around to make it my own.

I feel like giving this one a 7/10.

“The user ability to understand the system is one of the major concern of the Cuis’ community.“

so how is fedi not all into Cuis yet :blobcatthinkingglare:

So, there’s no menu or documentation anywhere on how to set a wallpaper for a Cuis world.

I might just figure it out on my own anyway :blobcateyes:

I did get a byte array with image data, so that’s goodgood, but I’m gonna go a step further and use a file stream…

related neat read: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=c93fukpVINA

am galaxy brain 🧠

(I feel like loading into variables vs streams is already stepping into needless duplicity lmao)

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Don’t expect it to scale up automatically or something, it just draws itself 1:1 and if there’s missing pixels it will do an IE6 and copy-paste whatever window is displayed on top :blobcatderpy:

ah of course :blobcatsip: