[squeak-dev] deselection broken in method list

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Jul 26 19:44:23 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:37:42AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 8:23 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > To focus on Eliot's original question: The deselection mechanism works
> > in Squeak4.5-13352.image. It does not work in trunk now.
> >
> 
> No, nothing has changed other than the traceMessages preference being set,
> which is way more important than occasionally filing out methods of a list.

Ah, ok. I see it now. If I disable the traceMessages preference, then deselection
in a method list works normally again.

@Eliot - turn of the traceMessages preference in the "browsing" category, and
sanity will be restored.

> 
> Deselecting with the Control key is broken in 4.5 and for a long time
> before that.  As I said, we should focus on letting that "isControlled"
> input var to MessageTrace>>#toggleSelectionAt:shifted:controlled: be able
> to come in as a "true" and then everything should just work...
> 
> I'll see if there's an easy fix.
> 

Thanks!

Dave



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