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Actually, the #automaticPlatformSettings preference is not really used except in SoundPlayer. Furthermore, even that use case seems to just fine-tune platform-specific "atmosphere" and not critical features such as keyboard input (and virtual keys).<div class="mb_sig"></div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's remove that preference as long as it's simple to do. Having such a thing widely used and then turned "off" my mistake can yield all kinds of strange bugs, debuggers, and questions in the mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 25.11.2021 12:44:27 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;text-align: left" dir="ltr">
I don't buy it. It's like a "turn off bugs" feature, which cannot practically exist. One can test features on different platforms without having such a preference in Trunk available for everybody.<div><br></div><div>We should remove this preference ASAP. It is misleading.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 25.11.2021 12:29:06 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<p>Hi Marcel,</p>
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<p>under normal constraints, I would also not recommend turning off this preference. But I can imagine that it might be helpful for debugging purposes, for instance, if you want to test the behavior for another platform ...</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 25. November 2021 11:53:06<br>
<b>An:</b> squeak-dev<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-ct.1423.mcz</span>
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I am surprised that such a preference exists since it is an implicit contract to always write code that runs on all supported platforms.
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<div>We should remove this preference ASAP. It is misleading.</div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 25.11.2021 11:35:06 schrieb commits@source.squeak.org <commits@source.squeak.org>:</p>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Christoph Thiede uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:<br>
http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-ct.1423.mcz<br>
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==================== Summary ====================<br>
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Name: Kernel-ct.1423<br>
Author: ct<br>
Time: 25 November 2021, 11:34:19.428424 am<br>
UUID: ec2f69bf-0aac-4747-8cc5-5778a713051f<br>
Ancestors: Kernel-mt.1422<br>
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Honors Preferences automaticPlatformSettings in EventSensor startUp:.<br>
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=============== Diff against Kernel-mt.1422 ===============<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: EventSensor class>>startUp: (in category 'system startup') -----<br>
startUp: resuming<br>
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+ (resuming and: [Preferences automaticPlatformSettings]) ifTrue: [<br>
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- resuming ifTrue: [<br>
Smalltalk platformName = 'Mac OS'<br>
ifTrue: [<br>
self mapAltKeysToOptionKeys: false.<br>
self mapControlKeysToCommandKeys: false]<br>
ifFalse: [<br>
self mapAltKeysToOptionKeys: true.<br>
self mapControlKeysToCommandKeys: true].<br>
self installVirtualKeyTable ].<br>
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self default startUp.!<br>
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