[Newbies] Disabling halos and the world menu

Jens Pall jens at axonspace.com
Thu Jan 4 17:04:45 UTC 2007


Brad Fuller wrote:
> 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?
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Sure. How do I do that?

JP


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