Hi Guys -
I'm new to Squeak (but not Smalltalk) - I've fired up Squeak images over the years and been put off by the sheer noise in the user interface - but then I discovered Damion's dev image and it looked a bit more approachable - so I'm trying to get started.
I've been trying the seaside tutorial to get going, and one thing that I have noticed is that when I right click (I'm using windows) I get a menu and it has items that have suffixes like "do it (d)" "pretty print (r)".
What do the items in brackets mean? I thought they were some sort of keyboard shortcut but I can't seem to work out how I invoke them - in particular I was interested in how to quickly reformat my code when pasting in examples from the tuturial?
Tim
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:45:40PM +0000, Tim M wrote:
Hi Guys -
I'm new to Squeak (but not Smalltalk) - I've fired up Squeak images over the years and been put off by the sheer noise in the user interface - but then I discovered Damion's dev image and it looked a bit more approachable
- so I'm trying to get started.
I've been trying the seaside tutorial to get going, and one thing that I have noticed is that when I right click (I'm using windows) I get a menu and it has items that have suffixes like "do it (d)" "pretty print (r)".
What do the items in brackets mean? I thought they were some sort of keyboard shortcut but I can't seem to work out how I invoke them - in particular I was interested in how to quickly reformat my code when pasting in examples from the tuturial?
They are keyboard shortcuts. Activate them using the Command key on macs, or the Alt key on other machines
Hi Matthew,
They are keyboard shortcuts. Activate them using the Command key on macs, or the Alt key on other machines
hmmm - that only seems to work for some things? E.g. If I change a method and press Alt-L (that does cancel) however Alt-R (pretty print) doesn't seem to pretty print the method and reformat it?
Also is there any way to activate the context menu through the keyboard (the windows keyboard context menu key possibly) so you can type command names?
Tim
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