[squeak-dev] Re: disableProgrammerFacilities

Dan Norton dnorton at mindspring.com
Mon May 4 15:25:00 UTC 2015


On 3 May 2015 at 22:26, Marcel Taeumel wrote:

> Interesting. :) Can elaborate on what it means to "disable the IDE"
> in terms
> of Squeak?
> 
> - System Browser, Inspctor, Explorer, Message Set, ...
> - Morphic Halos, Meta menus
> - Distinct keyboard shortcuts such as CMD+P, CMD+D, ...
> - Shrinking down the world menu to Transcript/Save/Quit
> - ...

That's a good list. I would like there to be no way for a user to get to any part of the IDE. Also 
not be able to determine the programming language.
> 
> Is it a deployment scenario? What might happen if a debugger wants
> to pop
> up?
> 

Definitely only for deployment of a robust application IMO. The comments and pop-ups in 
#disableProgrammerFacilities provide caveats. 

> ...What does eToys do? =)
> 

Good question.

 - Dan


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