[UI] Re: Transcript>>show: slowness.

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Sun Sep 9 22:11:31 UTC 2007


Not just the obvious cases. I don't like the way that "popup menus", in
general, co-opt the event mechanism.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Igor Stasenko
> Sent: 09 September 2007 10:59 pm
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] Re: Transcript>>show: slowness.
> 
> 
> Just think about it: hang UI is simply scares off potential 
> users. "I pressed something and now its not responsible..."
> - what is first reaction of user in such situation?
> He makes a right conclusion, that program is malfunction, or 
> he is doing something wrong, or there a bug. He can suppose 
> anything , and less probably that 'i must wait until command 
> complete'.
> 
> Here is a small fix, which makes me happy with Transcript (i removed
> #refreshWorld) . We may use it or not and stay with UI 
> inconsistencies and defend them to the death.
> 
> But in general, i'd like all senders of #refreshWorld to be 
> reviewed because this indicates that something wrong with 
> code, which using it, which requires immediate world update.
> 



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