[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Commented: (SQ-237) Gratuitous "Reading a stream" message

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Bert Freudenberg commented on SQ-237:
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While changing the translation idiom to use #format: is obviously a Good Thing, I'm wary of changing translatable strings this late in the cycle. 

Also, the test for 'a stream' looks fragile. Indeed, ReadWriteStream>>name translates this phrase. To properly solve this we'd need a way to distinguish between streams that have a name and those who do not, and using two different translatable messages in this case. This is because you can't really separate the phrases 'Reading {1}' and 'a stream'. In the case of German for example, the 'a' in 'a stream' would have be translated as 'ein' or 'einen' depending on context. 

But back on topic: Maybe we simply want to suppress the message altogether? I think we show a wait cursor so we don't really need it. You do that by catching the ProgressInitiationException and rerouting notifications: 
  
[...] on: ProgressInitiationException do: [:ex | ex sendNotificationsTo: [ :min :max :curr | "suppress" ]]

> Gratuitous "Reading a stream" message
> -------------------------------------
>
>          Key: SQ-237
>          URL: http://tracker.immuexa.com/browse/SQ-237
>      Project: squeakland
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: etoys
>     Reporter: Scott Wallace
>     Assignee: Scott Wallace
>      Fix For: etoys 4.0 - summer 2009
>  Attachments: noReadingAStream-sw.2.cs.gz
>
>
> Whenever the user opens up the "QuickGuides" by clicking on the "?" icon at the left edge of the nav-bar, the  message "Reading a stream" is presented.  Either show a less-absurd message, or show no message at all.

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