At 12:42 -0800 12/2/99, Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've made a stand-alone (i,.e., one that doesn't require the STP12 
>goodies) file-in for the PackageBrowser (AKA six-paned browser). 
>It's attached. Bug reports are solicited...

Looks nice! A few comments (from running it on 2.7):


(1) When there are no dashed items the default is for the second pane 
to be blank. It took me a moment to discover that I had to unselect 
my selection in the first pane to cause the same list to appear in 
pane two and then I had to find my item again.

Would it be reasonable and possible to have the third pane show the 
classes in this case?

It's interesting to note that if a package name has the form 
'MyName-' then a dash appears in the second pane and it can be 
selected to see the classes. Maybe something like a 'default' 
trailing dash can be used when there is no dash?


(2) The three buttons (Instance/?/Class) seem to be positioned partly 
behind the lower pane. (Try to move the upper boundary and see what 
outline gets selected.


I suspect this browser will have the effect of encouraging people to 
break large additions into smaller parts since it doesn't make the 
category list grow with each part.

Thanks,

Dave
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