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FlasherMorph
  category: Morphic-Demo
  superclass: EllipseMorph
  subclasses:

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instance methods
  as yet unclassified
  canHaveFillStyles
color:
fullPrintOn:
initialize
step
stepTime

  parts bin
  initializeToStandAlone

class methods
  parts bin
  descriptionForPartsBin

instance methods
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canHaveFillStyles

Return true if the receiver can have general fill styles; not just colors.
This method is for gradually converting old morphs.


 

color:

Set the receiver's color. Directly set the color if appropriate, else go by way of fillStyle


 

fullPrintOn:


 

initialize


 

step

Do some periodic activity. Use startStepping/stopStepping to start and stop getting sent this message. The time between steps is specified by this morph's answer to the stepTime message. The generic version dispatches control to the player, if any. The nasty circumlocation about owner's transformation is necessitated by the flexing problem that the player remains in the properties dictionary both of the flex and the real morph. In the current architecture, only the top renderer's pointer to the player should actually be honored for the purpose of firing.


 

stepTime

Answer the desired time between steps in milliseconds.


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initializeToStandAlone

Set up the receiver, created by a #basicNew and now ready to be initialized, as a fully-formed morph suitable for providing a graphic for a parts bin surrogate, and, when such a parts-bin surrogate is clicked on, for attaching to the hand as a viable stand-alone morph. Because of historical precedent, #initialize has been expected to handle this burden, though a great number of morphs actually cannot stand alone. In any case, by default we call the historical #initialize, though unhappily, so that all existing morphs will work no worse than before when using this protocol.


class methods
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descriptionForPartsBin

If the receiver is a member of a class that would like to be represented in a parts bin, answer the name by which it should be known, and a documentation string to be provided, for example, as balloon help. When the 'nativitySelector' is sent to the 'globalReceiver', it is expected that some kind of Morph will result. The parameters used in the implementation below are for documentation purposes only!