[squeak-dev] FileList improvements (was Re: A big thank you to whoever made the tree in FileList display in alphabetical order)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 03:36:07 UTC 2020


>
> Feel free to add a preference if you feel you must.


Thanks since I know you don't care to have more preferences, but a "Sandbox
Mode" will be needed for the Dynabook experience.


> But note that on a Pi - the slowest machines in regular use with Squeak -
> it takes less than 1 tenth of a second to open the image-save-as dialogue,
> so if your machine is taking even close to 10 seconds there is something
> interestingly weird going on and we need to profile it to find out why.
>

It depends on how many and how deep the directories you have, and what kind
of HD they're on.  But another few seconds quickly accumulates simply from
having to grab the mouse just to regain focus on the field where I can type
the filename.  Even with my change which centers that field under the hand,
there's another "feature" which ensures dialogs are always, fully, 100%
on-screen.  So, the focus is lost.  It was trying to be friendly, but I
just wanted to paste in the name and be done.


> Also, simply type a file path in the text box and return. It even does the
> #assureExistence checks to make sure the path exists. Or use no path and it
> will save in the same directory it came from. Or paste that stuff in as
> before. It all still works.
>

Good to know!


> Also, strictly speaking, gettimothy was referring to the FileList anyway...
>

The alphabetization was a very overdue improvement, thanks.

 - Chris
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