The Figure abstraction

[Baldvin Kovacs]

Hello,

could somebody explain to me what is the Figure abstraction (./scala/net/kogics/kojo/figure/Figure.scala)?

I am reading the source code with the intent to understand enough that I can write a little introduction and a reference in Hungarian for my children. I found that "animate{...}" is delegated to figure0, using its refresh method.

Then I found that the canvas implementation has a list of turtles and a list of figures. I kind of understand the reason to have a list of turtles. But other then a few builtins delegating to figure0, I don't see the figures being used for anything. The newFigure call seems to be called only at one call site, for example, when figure0 is instantiated.

I did read the source of Figure.scala, and I'll read it a few more times, yet if somebody could explain to me the thought behind it, it would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

Baldvin

[Lalit Pant]

Hi Baldvin,

Figure was the core engine for the original Canvas API, and then the Staging API. At this point, Canvas is gone, and Staging is not used much (we instead have Pictures to do a lot of what Canvas and Staging did).

As of now, Figure is just an internal class that helps with Picture animation.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

- Lalit

 

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[Baldvin Kovacs]

Thanks for the explanation, this really helps. I was able to guess that the weirdness is related to some transitional stage, I just didn't know if the code base was transitioning _to_ or _from_ using the Figure abstraction. (And the staging code sent me to the bushes for a few hours, I didn't realize at first read of the code that it is mostly an unused ballast.)

Thanks,

Baldvin