On 2012-12-06 5:33 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 10:03, Andreas.Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Chris Cunnington wrote
>>> This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted
>>> Workspace.
>>>
>>> TheWorldMainDockingBar instance
>>>           showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43
>>>           label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3'
>>>           in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
>>>
>>> By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines,
>>> bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce
>>> a string that can be saved as a method.
>> Just accept the text? Have you tried this? Because if you look at
>> #showWelcomeText:label:in: in my Squeak (4.4-12292) it says:
>>
>>          "Change the following to allow editing the text"
>>          true ifTrue:[
>>
>> In other words, editing is enabled. If it's disabled for you you might want
>> to change this line. Then just edit away and accept.
> As I mentioned to Bert, the key in all this is that "just accept it"
> works if the Workspace's acceptAction is set to something special.
> This is highly non-obvious to someone like myself (or presumable Chris
> Cunnington), who lack the in-depth experience you and Bert share.
Oh my, yes.
>
> So in particular, I've solved the problem. We'll use #welcomeToSqueak
> as the basis for the welcome text, rather than the version-specific
> #welcomeToSqueak43, so that for the next release it _will_ be as
> simple as "open the welcome Workspace, edit it, and accept". And I've
> added an item to the 4.5 wishlist (wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6189) to
> pull this out of Morphic: it seems silly to have to touch Morphic at
> all to update a new version of Squeak.
>
Nice. Sounds like a plan.

Chris