Suggestion for the label of buttons in the debugger

Alexandre Bergel bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Feb 24 18:08:02 UTC 2004


Yep, I agree...
"Over" and "Into" would be more adequate

my little 2 cts...

Alexandre


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:42:33PM +0100, ducasse wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> May be I'm the only one to have this problem but for me
> send and step is not descriptive as label in the debugger.
> 
> I always have to get the help and see step = Over and send  = step into
> Remark how the label is funny it is not even in synch with the balloon 
> text Send = step into
> 
> Could not we rename these labels Over and Into?
> I'm always thinking about all the newbies coming in Squeak.
> 
> Recently the debugger of VW really improved in particular they used the 
> fact that the semantics
> of the actions goes gradually from the stepiest action you can do until 
> "proceed" by putting icons ordered by actions
> from left to right, and it works really well.
> 
> Stef
> 

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