[squeak-dev] UI feedback badness in 4.4-12550-ish image
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri May 24 00:22:06 UTC 2013
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Bal?zs K?si wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Morphic-kb.652 is a first stab at implementing two-stage highlighting of
> list selections. It changes PluggableListMorph behaviour, which is the
> superclass of MorphicToolBuilder list classes. That means all ToolBuilder
> built lists should be affected. Monticello already uses ToolBuilder if it's
> present (see MCTool>>buildWindow), so the repository inspector
> responsiveness is fixed to some extent.
Thanks for doing this, I like it a lot. I used to have to push really hard
on the mouse button to get a selection, and now I will not need to do that ;-)
I vote to move it to trunk.
Dave
>
> A next step could be to show a wait cursor while the model is performing
> its actions for the selection, iff the action takes some noticeable time
> (else the cursor flickers annoyingly).
>
> For the http repository it would be even better to have some kind of
> download manager, which wouldn't block the ui while downloading. (But it
> could have the side effect users downloading unneeded versions in excess).
>
> Cheers, Bal?zs
>
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