Hi chris

just how I said:

When you do not select a category you see all the methods,
if you select a category then you see only the method category.
Just cool.
I can send you screen shot if you want but I will not send it to the 
list


On mercredi, décembre 18, 2002, at 10:00  pm, Norton, Chris wrote:

> Argh!  That's what I get for working from memory (I've just 
> demonstrated to
> you all that mine is chock-full of holes)...
>
> I retract this statement:  "The intentional implementation of this 
> feature
> is that when you click on a class, the '--all--' category will be 
> selected
> by default, offering you a quick look at a pane-full of the available
> protocol."
>
> Our intention was simply to provide a way to easily browse the entire
> protocol of a class (by clicking '--all--').
>
> Looking back at version 2, I can see that when I implemented the 
> feature,
> you had to click on '--all--' to get the list of methods.  The default 
> was
> to show the class definition.  Thanks for gently jogging my memory Ned.
>
> Having now just looked at 3.4a, I understand the problem.  I think 
> that the
> two possible solutions are:
>
> 1. return to the prior implementation, where '--all--' is not selected 
> by
> default.
> 2. add a menu item to the method's list that says something like:  'New
> method template' -- which would clear the edit pane and put the 
> browser in
> method edit mode (displaying the new method template).
>
> I think my preference is for number 2.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---==> Chris
>
> PS>  Stephane, I have not had the pleasure of working with 
> VisualWorks, so I
> don't know what it looks like.  Could you describe its browser's 
> '--all--'
> behavior & perhaps point me to a picture of one?  Thanks!
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
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