Thanks, John.

I'd be strongly in favor of not altering default behavior when the Caps Lock
key is down. I am equally strongly in favor of making sure my Caps Lock key
_isn't_ down before I jump to any delusions about Squeak misbehavior!

--- John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> >
> >So I quit from the Mac system menu, was not asked about saving, and
> relaunched
> >the image. The Counter project has disappeared, but I still cannot get a
> world
> >menu; clicking on the desktop (or what I've come to think of as the desktop
> at
> >least) in my opening Squeak window produces the menu for finding a window. I
> >quit and re-launched twice to no avail.
> 
> 
> First, the quit from the file menu doesn't go thru Squeak to quit, 
> thus no chance to ask you what to do. I have suggested that we queue 
> an event on the event queue that we are quitting, thus letting the 
> image put up a prompt and or take what ever action is acceptable, for 
> a read only image we could just quit for example.
> 
> The other choice here is to put up a mac dialog to allow you to 
> choose between quit or save and quit which then allows you to quit no 
> save if the  VM is in some broken state, passing the event up to 
> Squeak to have it handle it might not work in some cases.
> 
> For the curious, every 1/2 second the VM will call the routine to 
> queue events from the OS UI. That doesn't mean the VM needs to 
> process them, but they are read from the OS.
> 
> 
> PS Bet your caps lock key was down, I'm going to alter this in 3.0.8 
> so caps lock does not set the shift is down attribute, this was a 
> request made earlier by SqC this week in fact.
> 
> Thoughts?
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