[Newbies] Disabling halos and the world menu

Jens Pall jens at axonspace.com
Thu Jan 4 06:59:32 UTC 2007


Ned Konz wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Ok, thanks. I'll try the code in the swiki and also see if I can follow 
Ned's approach to figure out how I can disable the things I want to have 
disabled.

Cheers,
JP


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