Chris,
What's different between the SelectorFinder in morphic vs mvc is that in morphic you can hit the RETURN key -- after typing in the desired selector fragment -- to launch your query, whereas in mvc you have to hit cmd-s (or alt-s) or the ENTER key, or choose "accept" from the type-in-pane's menu.
(The mvc text editor treats a RETURN like any other character, but in morphic we can set up a text editing pane such that RETURN is interpreted as a request to "accept". That's progress!)
If it's really true that the ENTER key doesn't work in an mvc SelectorBrowser on your machine, this may be a platform-dependent problem revolving around interpretation of the Enter key. On the Mac, at least, ENTER works equivalently in mvc and morphic text panes, serving as a synoynm for "accept" in both cases.
As for the "find", "find again" etc. menu items you see in the type-in pane's menu in the SelectorFinder, these are just incidental byproducts of the fact that the type-in pane is a general text-editing pane -- what you're seeing is just the standard text-editing menu. You can in fact do general text-editing in this pane if you really want to! We didn't want to bother special-casing a more restricted menu here because -- well, because we never do. I can see how it was puzzling in this case, but on the other hand, it's nice, wherever text-editing is possible, to see the same familiar set of text-editing menu items.
Hope this helps,
-- Scott
At 12:22 PM -0800 3/23/99, Norton, Chris wrote:
Hi Folks.
I have to thank Maurice Rabb for getting me to play with the Selector Finder.
Apparently, the Morphic Selector Finder is working as designed. If I type a selector name, like "printOn:" in the upper left hand box and then type <Enter>, the lower pane fills up with selectors whose name contains this substring.
The MVC Selector finder does not do this. I'm not sure if this is the only way to use the tool, as I just recently started playing around with it. I can't seem to figure out how to use the "find...", "find again" or "set search string" popup items. They don't appear to do anything in this dialog.
In any event, the two dialogs do not seem to work the same, so I'm calling this a bug.
Thanks.
---==> Chris