[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Commented: (SQ-1013) button to show script

Scott Wallace (JIRA) tracker at squeakland.org
Sat Mar 17 18:48:53 EDT 2012


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Scott Wallace commented on SQ-1013:
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Steve's thoughtful suggestions for new UI's deserve serious consideration for the next release.  But for 5.0, I have found that the simple "button to open script" feature originally posted here, for which I have now attached a much improved version named showScriptButton-sw.5.cs.gz, to be very useful in every example I've been working on, and would very much like to see it get into the image.

Improvements in showScriptButton-sw.5.cs (compared to the earlier version posted here) try to respond to some of Steve's criticisms.  The button label now automatically tracks changes to the player name and the script name, unless the label has been manually edited (this treatment is just like that of the long-standing ScriptActivationButton.)  And the default button label now includes the player name as well as the script name; and appropriate balloon-help is provided for the button.  (However, I still would expect that most users of this feature would manually edit the label of the button to suit their own taste.)

This feature is only very minimally invasive on the UI of the system, and perhaps no one else will ever even discover or use it, but having it in the image would be a great boon at least for me, and will assist and encourage me to continue to produce examples.... thank you :)

> button to show script
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: SQ-1013
>                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-1013
>             Project: squeakland
>          Issue Type: Feature
>            Reporter: Scott Wallace
>             Fix For: etoys 5.0
>
>         Attachments: Script Collapse%0D.png, Scriptor Show Hide.007.pr, showScriptButton-sw.2.cs.gz, showScriptButton-sw.5.cs.gz
>
>
> Adds 'button to show/hide this script' to the Scriptor menu.  When chosen, this will produce a button which, when pressed, will show the Scriptor -- or, if the Scriptor is already showing, hide it. The resulting button can subsequently be edited via its halo in the usual ways, e.g. to change the name, the color, the balloon help.
> AFAIK no one has been clamoring for this feature, but I believe that it would be found quite useful. Often we want to make it possible to reveal the inner workings of parts of a project.  For a small enough project, we often simply leave all the important Scriptors open on the screen at the same time, but this can lead to unwanted clutter, and past a certain project size this becomes impractical in any case. Buttons produced by this proposed feature will allow individual scripts to be "called up" easily for inspection, and as easily removed from view.

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