Editing class method sources in single place
itsme213
itsme213 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 31 17:00:42 UTC 2008
"Jon Hylands" <jon at huv.com> wrote in message
> However, it turns out there's a better metaphor that people intuitively
> understand - a stack.
A Back-Button on steroids? Would be _very_ useful.
It might be good, though, to treat this as _one_ way to
"see a set of User-Selectable methods very Conveniently"
to allow combining different orthogonal aspects:
A. different ways to see them Conveniently (and navigate between them)
- cascading columns/rows
- split screen/row/column
- tear-offs
- tabs
- back buttons
B. different and easier User-Selectables
- ways to limit scope: global image, my package, class hierarchy..
- senders, implementors of a message
- concrete methods wherever possible e.g. self, super sends
- lists multi-options otherwise, perhaps showing method bodies
- all messages sent to an instVar (from a class, or from a method)
- all calls to self or super (from a class, or from a method)
- method protocol (manual or dynamic)
- all not-implemented-like methods
- user hand-picked set of methods
- all methods of class (ok, with suitable neolithic icon :-)
(I am certain we can come up with several useful others)
C. the option to change the view in-place or spawn another window
- in-place updates that window stack / Back button
- spawn 1 other window for the new (multiple method) view
- spawning <N> other windows, one for each method
- would be the N-Browser approach
- Sophie
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