default text size problem.

shaping at bigfoot.com shaping at bigfoot.com
Fri Apr 30 17:46:34 UTC 1999


----- Original Message -----
From: <Scott.Wallace at disney.com>
To: <shaping at bigfoot.com>
Cc: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: default text size problem.


> The recommended procedure for getting a fresh start with flaps (i.e.
destroying all the old ones, and getting pristine new ones) is simply to
evaluate:
>
>      Utilities reinstateDefaultFlaps

Thanks for that.  Why then was the procedure below offered?  I thought there
might have been a subtle difference, but don't recall what it was.

Shaping

>
> At 6:14 AM -0700 4/30/99, shaping at bigfoot.com wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Dan Ingalls <DanI at wdi.disney.com>
> >To: Joshua Gargus <gargus at ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca>
> >Cc: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> >Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 1:17 PM
> >Subject: Re: default text size problem.
> >
> >
> >> Josh -
> >>
> >> >Yet another idea is to destroy the global flaps, and rerun
> >> >whatever initialization method(s) created them during the
> >> >filein process.  I don't know how complicated this would be;
> >> >I've been unable to find out how to do this, either.
> >>
> >> Having just visited this region for other reasons (space reclamation),
I
> >offer the following suggestion:
> >>
> >> 1.  Use the preferences... window to set useGlobalFlaps to false.
> >>
> >> 2.  Browse to System-Support/Utilities
> >>
> >> 3.  In the class pane choose class vars to inspec the class variables
> >>
> >> 4.  Select the item 'FlapTabs' -- it will show an orderedCollection
> >>
> >> 5.  In the value pane, select all that, replace it by 'nil' (without
the
> >quotes),
> >> and choose 'save' from the menu or use cmd-s
> >>
> >> This should put you in such a condition that, if you then turn the
> >useGlobalFlaps  preferences on again, it will recreate things from
scratch.
> >
> >Doing the above flush and rebuild in 2.4b creates a second set of flaps;
the
> >original set is still there.  Is this correct?
> >
> >
> >Shaping
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