commernts i 1.3

Joe Davison jwdavison at lucent.com
Thu Jan 29 15:11:03 UTC 1998


n.moray at surrey.ac.uk said: 
> A minor but irritating problem for the unsophisticated user is that if I
> click on "?" in the browser, I get the comments about the method, but
> several lines are missing at the top in almost almost every case, and the
> scroll bar does not seem to let me scroll up to see the initial line or two
> of comment.
> 
> for example, if I click on the "?" for LinkedList I get exactly the
> following:
> 
> g the items in a textual list
> (menu) up or down. In addition, I provide the red button activity of
> determining when the red button is selecting an item in the list."
> 


Ohhh!  Do you see the same thing when you select the "comments" selection
from the menu?

Editing your changes file or your sources file can produce those little
offsets -- typically it's fine for some methods, bad for some, and worse
for others -- the bytecoded methods include offsets into the defining file,
and if the file gets edited the offsets are wrong...

joe





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