out-of-box experience: Squeak flap obscuring windows and sticky Preferences window

Jesse Welton jwelton at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Thu Feb 8 14:05:06 UTC 2001


Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> Also, why are most of the windows in the Squeak system opened in default 
> positions, while the Preferences window opens up stuck to the Hand, requiring
> it to be dropped somewhere?
> 
> It seems like things that look alike (in this case, like windows) ought to 
> behave similarly when they're created. I can't think of any reason why ONLY 
> the Preferences window should stick to the Hand when it's created.

I generally agree.  I do note, however, that this isn't the ONLY such
window.  The inspector that comes up when selecting "inspect morph"
from the debug halo also sticks to the hand - but not the inspector
you get for "inspect model", or the explorer you get from "explore
morph"...  Yuck!

-Jesse





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