[squeak-dev] Search bar, or is it?

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 15:18:33 UTC 2010


OK but then it should behave more appropriately. Only the area where
you actually type text should expand and not the whole bar.

--Hannes

On 4/27/10, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>
>> I think Levente made a joke writing  that the resizing behavior is a
>> feature.
>> It is a bug.
>
> Definitely not.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 4/27/10, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Levente,
>>>
>>> The problem is that I don't really get it when you call this a
>>> feature. It is literally at the expense of having a coherent user
>>> interface. My understanding of the feature as you describe it is for
>>> quick evaluation, which means there should be very little reason to be
>>> able to input lengthy code. The search bar could extend on its own on
>>> print it but it would be perhaps better to have some kind of tool tip
>>> with the print out. In fact, why not inspect it rather than print it?
>>> It would mean no need to resize anything.
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>> 2010/4/27 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ian Trudel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Levente,
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a screenshot attached to my previous message. Press and hold
>>>>> a key in the search bar and look at your screen. The entire menu bar
>>>>> will grow as the characters will exceed the search bar's width and it
>>>>> will take over all the screen.
>>>>
>>>> That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's a feature. I guess you
>>>> didn't
>>>> try what I suggested. So please try one of these:
>>>> 0 tinyBenchmarks
>>>> Smalltalk garbageCollect
>>>> [ Object compileAll ] bench
>>>>
>>>> It can be improved of course (by making sure that only the search bar
>>>> grows
>>>> and not the whole docking bar), but the feature freeze of 4.1 was too
>>>> close
>>>> when we added the search bar.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Levente
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/4/27 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Ian Trudel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Y'all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hereby demand that we rename the search bar to fun bar! 'Cause it's
>>>>>>> a lot of fun. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a feature. It lets us use the search bar as an expression
>>>>>> evaluator.
>>>>>> Just press Ctrl+0, type your expression and print it. You don't have
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> open
>>>>>> (or find) a workspace for that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Levente
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ian.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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