[squeak-dev] UI feedback badness in 4.4-12550-ish image

Juan Vuletich (mail lists) juanlists at jvuletich.org
Tue May 28 02:20:16 UTC 2013



Hi Folks, 

I've just published some updates for Cuis related to this at www.github.com/jvuletich/Cuis. I added two stage highlighting both to regular and hierarchical lists, and both when clicking and navigating with the keyboard. I also made Cuis to automatically show the busy cursor when "busy", and this allowed removing some 80 calls to 'Cursor wait showWhile: []', cleaning a lot of evil references from model to view... 

Quoting Balázs Kósi <rebmekop at gmail.com>: 

> 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.
>
> 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, Balázs

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
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