Hi Scott or anybody else,
I've had a quick look for "optional morphic buttons" and "use annotation panes".
Can you please remind me where I'd find them.
I've always wondered what happend to the MVC concept with the browser architecture - looks like this is getting closer.
Thanks,
Stewart
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For a strong effect try this out in 2.7 alpha: set the "optional morphic buttons" and "use annotation panes" preferences to true, then ask to "browse recent submissions" (in the 'changes' menu, or via the button in the Squeak flap), and then proceed to work in your usual fashion. The recent-submissions browser will continuously track all subsequent changes, providing a handy audit trail and an easy way to examine and revisit your recent working set. If you have the "diffs" button set, you will additionally see exactly what was changed in each method.
Once you get used to these congenial new services, you'll soon enough forget the bad old days.
-- Scott
PS: If you do update to 2.7 alpha to try out the improved tools, be aware that pre-existing browsers, inspectors, etc., will *not* have the smart-updating behavior. Only windows launched after you've updated at least through #1564 will have it.
PPS: The problems people have been mentioning have all been present in Squeak since the birth of Squeak, and they have been present in both the mvc and the morphic environments, and indeed they have been continuously present in every system in Squeak's ancestral blood-line dating back to the advent of browsers and inspectors around 25 years ago.