[squeak-dev] Re: 4.1 release candidate 4

Alexander Lazarević laza at blobworks.com
Mon Apr 12 16:26:33 UTC 2010


2010/4/12 Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> I not talking about changing the text through the code browser (for

Me neither. Use alt-s or what's it on the mac.

Alex

> that reopening is fine) but rather changing the 'welcome text' in the
> workspace itself (a text which is "Text", i.e. not plain as in some of
> the workspaces).
>
> That is supposed to be possible but the menu in the workspace to
> 'accept' the changes remains deactivated.
>
> Hannes
>
>
>
> On 4/12/10, Alexander Lazarević <laza at blobworks.com> wrote:
>> You need to reopen a new  welcome workspace after the change.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> 2010/4/12 Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
>>> More precisely:
>>>
>>> I changed  false ifTrue:[  to true ifTrue:[ in the code below:
>>> But it did not work.
>>>
>>>
>>> showWelcomeText: aSelector label: labelString in: bounds
>>>        "Show a welcome text. Linked in here so that the text can be edited
>>>        by changing the acceptBlock below."
>>>        | acceptBlock window |
>>>        "Change the following to allow editing the text"
>>>        true ifTrue:[
>>>                acceptBlock := [:text|
>>>
>>> HH
>>>
>>> On 4/12/10, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded
>>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/4.1rc4/win/
>>>> and I like the fact that 4.1 is nearing completion.
>>>>
>>>> I have two things:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1) Welcome work spaces in 'Help' menu
>>>>
>>>> I like that the welcome workspaces may be closed and then re-opened
>>>> through the 'Help' menu. This is in fact a very useful feature. After
>>>> downloading 4.1 I may read the text and then close all the welcome
>>>> screens and have a clear space to my own work. In case I need some
>>>> release information it is still there in the help menu.
>>>>
>>>> According to
>>>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-April/148499.html
>>>> I may change the text and save it.
>>>> Currently the menu in the workspace for doing this is disabled. Is
>>>> there a preference setting to enable the pop-up-menu?
>>>>
>>>> The texts are strings stored in methods in TheWorldMainDockingBar /
>>>> category 'submenu - help'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) Content of 'Welcome workspaces'
>>>> I as well note that the welcome screen are now geared towards new
>>>> users. They give less details what has been changed for 4.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for all your work
>>>>
>>>> Hannes
>>>>
>>>> On 4/12/10, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/11/2010 10:07 PM, Lawson English wrote:
>>>>>> Not that I can test things well, but the VM issue is indeed fixed, and
>>>>>> I'm having no issues installing your OpenGL lib for 4.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any form of testing is greatly appreciated. I can only really test on
>>>>> Windows so people giving feedback one way or the other is always
>>>>> welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>    - Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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