[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Monticello-ct.729.mcz

christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Mon Jan 3 20:42:30 UTC 2022


Merged without the truncation (only multilingual support) via Monticello-ct.764.

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On 2020-09-19T11:37:16+00:00, christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

> Hi Marcel,
> 
> 
> 
> > It would be nice to have a version of text-only dialog that uses a pluggable text morph to scroll longer text messages. Maybe with a fixed  width of "60 ex" and height for 5-7 lines.
> 
> 
> <http://www.hpi.de/>
> Hm, would this be a reason for a new "NestedTextAttribute" that is converted into a nested pluggable text morph before displaying? The advantage of this solution would be the free positioning of the scrollable text inside of the whole message text. The disadvantage would be increased complexity ...
> 
> Best,
> Christoph
> ________________________________
> Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel
> Gesendet: Freitag, 18. September 2020 15:20:44
> An: squeak-dev
> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Monticello-ct.729.mcz
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> yeah, that warning is not helpful for inbox commits.
> 
> It would be nice to have a version of text-only dialog that uses a pluggable text morph to scroll longer text messages. Maybe with a fixed  width of "60 ex" and height for 5-7 lines.
> 
> -1 for this trunction of information, though, because the user has no easy way to look at those 16 version names in that situation.
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
> 
> Am 17.09.2020 19:09:07 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
> 
> Before:
> 
> [cid:e853f811-9aac-4450-8e0c-f4cb0a622e50]
> 
> 
> After:
> 
> [cid:fabc3777-170e-4222-abf9-35c599634f15]
> 
> 
> However, I have follow-up questions:
> 
> 
> A. Why do clients need to care about #withNoLineLongerThan:/word-wrapping stuff? Shouldn't this be a responsibility of UserDialogBoxMorph instead?
> 
> 
> B. Should we maybe turn off this warning for commits to the MCRepository inbox? In this particular case, our declared workflow says that you should ignore this message anyway, doesn't it?
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> ________________________________
> Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von commits at source.squeak.org <commits at source.squeak.org>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. September 2020 19:04:57
> An: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Betreff: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Monticello-ct.729.mcz
> 
> A new version of Monticello was added to project The Inbox:
> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Monticello-ct.729.mcz
> 
> ==================== Summary ====================
> 
> Name: Monticello-ct.729
> Author: ct
> Time: 17 September 2020, 7:04:53.385813 pm
> UUID: 5eea47cc-405e-7841-9544-0f57a9b92fa0
> Ancestors: Monticello-cmm.726
> 
> Proposal: Enhance truncation of "newer versions avaiable" warning (and make it multilingual-ready)
> 
> =============== Diff against Monticello-cmm.726 ===============
> 
> Item was changed:
>   ----- Method: MCWorkingCopyBrowser>>checkForNewerVersions (in category 'actions') -----
>   checkForNewerVersions
> +        "Answer true if there are no newer versions preventing us from saving a version."
> +
>          | newer |
>          newer := workingCopy possiblyNewerVersionsIn: self repository.
> +
> +        newer ifEmpty: [^ true].
> +
> +        ^ self confirm: ('CAUTION!! {1}:\{2}\Do you really want to save this version?' withCRs translated format: {
> +                newer size = 1
> +                        ifTrue: ['This version in the repository may be newer' translated]
> +                        ifFalse: ['These {1} versions in the repository may be newer' translated format: {newer size}].
> +                (newer size > 3
> +                        ifFalse: [newer]
> +                        ifTrue: [(newer first: 3) , {'...'} , {newer last}]) asCommaString withNoLineLongerThan: 150
> +        })!
> -        ^ newer isEmpty or: [
> -                self confirm: 'CAUTION!! These versions in the repository may be newer:',
> -                        String cr, ((newer asCommaString withNoLineLongerThan:  150) truncateWithElipsisTo: 5 * 149), String cr,
> -                        'Do you really want to save this version?'].!
> 
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