[Newbies] Disabling halos and the world menu

[Ned Konz]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> Jens Pall wrote:
>> Brad Fuller wrote:
>>> Jens Pall wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> How can I prevent the halos from appearing when clicking the middle 
>>>> mouse button?
>>>>
>>>> I tried Preferences>>disableProgrammerFacilities but the halos still 
>>>> appear. The World menu (left mouse button) also still appears. 
>>>> Shouldn't this command also disable it?
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in locking the image down as much as possible in 
>>>> order to be able to ship it running a product sold by my company.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using VM 3.7.1 on Windows and image 3.9-final-7067.
>>> check this out:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/518
>>>
>> Thanks Brad, but it doesn't seem to be working as described on that 
>> page. The message should disable halos and the world menu but it 
>> doesn't (those are easy to check - haven't checked the other features).
>>
>> Do I need to use the code from bike-nomad (which seems to from a 3.4 
>> image)?
> You're right, seems it only works a bit = for instance,  the menus are 
> modified (e.g. there is no "do it"), but not as advertised in the swiki..
> 
> If you install the Squeakmap package "Lockdown", it does work, but ends 
> in a error after installation. Seems to work fine, though.
> 
> You could file a defect on the mantis server and explain that it doesn't 
> work identical to the http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/518
> 
> I copied Ned. Maybe he can explain more.
> 

I haven't touched Squeak in a while. Probably the package needs to be 
updated; there have been a number of changes to the menu system.

Really, the way I wrote it was to just take the things that I wanted to 
disable one by one and just figured out how to do so.


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Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
http://bike-nomad.com