[Newbies] Disabling halos and the world menu

[Brad Fuller]

Jens Pall wrote:
> 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.
After you get it to work, how about making it a package?