[etoys-dev] Etoys: Etoys-Richo.103.mcz

[karl ramberg]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Scott Wallace
<scott.wallace at squeakland.org> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Ricardo Moran wrote:
>
> Hi again, I've been working on the "decimal places" option and now I don't
> feel is a good idea because we would still have the "decimal places..." menu
> item in system-defined slots. I feel this wouldn't be very consistent. Maybe
> the dialog with just name & type would be good enough.
>
>
> Arguably yes... However, since you've already done the work to have the
> decimal-places element come and go in the panel, depending on the type
> chosen, and since its presence in the panel helps make users conscious of
> the "decimal places" feature, which they might otherwise not be aware of,
> maybe we should keep it there...
>
> In any case, this is an excellent and timely and really welcome piece of
> work, Richo -- yay!

I can only chime in to say my yay as well.
Great work Richo.


Karl
>
> Any comments from Ed Team about this?
>
>   -- Scott
>
>
> In any case, I attached the new change set for you to try.
>
> Cheers,
> Richo
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, the last change set had a bug when the slot was removed while the
>> dialog was still open. I fixed it in this new change set.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've made a partial update on the new dialog (change set attached). I
>>> haven't added the type-specific "decimal places" yet, but I replaced the
>>> menu items "rename <var>" and "change value type" with the item "change
>>> variable info...".
>>>
>>> I also fixed the code a little, removed the title, and added a couple of
>>> #translated sends.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Richo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Scott Wallace
>>> <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Steve Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Ed Team should think about Quick Guides on Variables, and perhaps
>>>> > balloon help when you mouse over the variable types.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right -- and it would be very good if in the gallery or guides or
>>>> *somewhere* we had examples illustrating use of every one of the types.
>>>>
>>>>  -- Sott
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