Bill Schwab wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First, some comments/suggestions/complaints.  None of these are
> crucial in that they won't affect whether or not I use Squeak, they
> probably will affect where I'd deploy it and with what kind of user.
> 
> (1) the mapping of underscores to assignment operator is
> unfortunate IMHO.  I'd much rather type := than lose a character
> that appears in a lot of code that I might want to file in some day.

There's been discussion of mapping a different character to the assignment operator, but an obvious alternative hasn't come up yet.  (Besides, Smalltalk selector/variable names usually don't contain underscores by convention... though there may be exceptions. ;-) )

> (2) The fact that the mouse cursor location can "remove" input
> focus from a text field is a show-stopper for the end users that I
> support.  It's not a big deal because these users always run
> Windows, so I can (and do) use Dolphin to write apps for them,
> but, it's something that I think should change for the long-term
> benefit of Squeak.

It might be nice to have a preference for this behavior one day.  In the mean time, it is possible to change this behavior for end users.  For example, the BobsUI mini-toolkit supports keeping text focus in the text fields.  See BobsUI at this page on the Squeak Swiki:  http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/guiBuildingTools .

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com