[newbie] new look, scrollbars, mouse wheel, diff, searching

Simon Michael simon at joyful.com
Mon Aug 27 01:41:45 UTC 2001


new look
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With a pang of regret for the purist, ultra-mnemonic colored windows
(still available of course), I see and embrace the new look. This is
really great - very attractive and still usefully color-coded, and
more of a subtle 3d look, fewer black outlines. Default flaps have had
some nice usability improvements - reorganized, the latest tools
added, smaller icons and a text label for each one.  And resizing
windows & panes now feels much much nicer. What a fine job. I think
Jochen's colored scrollbars idea might work well.

scrollbars
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As usual, dithered around with the scrollbar preferences. Every time I
do this, each time with a little less conviction. I have come to like
the popup scrollbars; tried putting them on the right; this does not
currently work because mousing over to the scrollbar I cross a
one-pixel gap and the scrollbar disappears. Capitulated to the default
settings.

mouse wheel
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On my secondary, windows pc, the mousewheel makes scrollbars less
important and makes a huge difference in usability. I have a working
mousewheel on the linux box but have not yet seen it work in
squeak. It would be really nice to have this, should look into it.

diff
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I have one changeset of interest from the old discarded images (some
progress bar enhancements). I want to file it in and work on it a bit
more, but also to keep things clean, so first I browse the code
without actually loading it, via FileList's more..  menu.

Problem: diffing the changeset with the current code shows large
difference regions apparently due to pretty printing, making it hard
to pinpoint the changes that I made back then. Not sure exactly how
this comes about.

? question: what's the best way to avoid spurious pretty-print diffs ?
Pointers to past discussion/faqs also appreciated.

searching
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Searched the squeak wiki/mailing list/faq for info on the above, no
luck. Found that the searchable mailing list archive (not the
yahoogroups one) stalls in my browser, though I can squeeze out a few
results if I let it run then press stop. Search expression syntax
unclear here and apparently nonexistent at yahoogroups, so tried
Google. Yes!! They seem to have indexed both the yahoo archive and the
swiki, so this should be my new first stop for squeak answers.  Must
figure out google's host-specifying syntax again, maybe make some
custom search forms.





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