[ANN] StarBrowser v4 on SqueakMap

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Dec 9 21:45:48 UTC 2002


On Monday 09 December 2002 12:15 pm, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> Hi ned
>
> some feedback about the names of the item:
> 	add list... is strange
> 	add expression...
>
> may
> 	add group
> 	add computed group
>
> then if I had add list... then cancel I got still an empty list
>
> I think that we should clarify the ui vocabulary because we have
> when I select a red classification asExtensional

I just changed the terminology to "extendable group" and "computed 
group". Better phrases welcome!

> When we were brainstorming on SB, we come up with the idea that
> when you are programming
> we have one point of attention (we called it King), and we have the
> collaborators or
> utilities classes that constitute the King's court. Ideally we
> would like to
> be able to select a class and get its court automatically beased on
> some simple type inference, but not the "people".
>
> I think that getting rid of the class categories in the inside
> browsers would be good.

What do you mean?

> we could have default classifications named classes, classes
> categories for browsing the complete system.
>
> to continue on the concept of the king we wanted to have one
> browser accepting (on demand)
> all the other spawned browsers such as senders, implementors,
> inspectors, (you mentioned that we could do that but I could figure
> out how)

A menu item (for instance) can replace the edit window contents in the 
browser with something else.

> The idea was that we wanted to have one browser as point of focus.

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