[UPDATES] More on the way to 2.5

Dan Ingalls Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Wed Jul 28 14:45:57 UTC 1999


Folks -

Here are a few more.  Note that 1357 fixes Andrew Greenberg's reported bug (thanks, Scott!), and that 1358 includes Bob Arning's Object Explorer in the base system.

	- Dan
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1355griddingCleanup-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 27 July 1999
Some improvements to morphic gridding:
*  The command 'turn gridding on' just turns gridding on, using the current grid size.
*  The new command 'set grid size' allows you to specify (or confirm) the grid size.
*  When specifying a new grid size, you can respond with a simple integer and it will be used to grid both dimensions (formerly you had to respond with a Point, or things would go sour.)
*  When specifying a new grid size, the input is checked to make certain that it is of appropriate type and in an appropriate range (1 .. 36) before it is truly accepted. 
(NB:  since the Hand grids its input points, large grid sizes can quickly lead to an unusable UI -- for example you may not be able to select certain items in menus, including perhaps the items necessary to reset the grid size to a more plausible value!.  36 is perhaps an over-generous max grid size.)
*  Use of the 'set grid size' will turn gridding on if it were previously off; used in this way, it thus behaves the same as the original turn gridding on command."

1356macNetworkCode-jm -- John Maloney -- 27 July 1999
Adds stub methods to allow linking with the new accept() socket primitives. A real
implementation will follow in a future release."

1357miscFixes-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 27 July 1999
(1)  Fixes bug that if, for a class new to the receiver system, the class comment occurs in a fileout before any actual class code is encountered, a debugger could result because the class had no instantiated organization yet.
(2)  Corrects the wording of the dialog asking the user whether to save the style (it used i.e. where it ought to use e.g.).
(3)  Minor adjustment to the reporting of outcome of a code update attempt, to avoid such jarring statements as '1 files processed'.
(4)  Removes three morphic methods that (as per a Bert Freudenberg observation) were not in use."

1358ObjectExplorer-RAA -- Bob Arning -- 21 June 1999
ObjectExplorer provides a hierarchical alternative to #inspect.
Simply evaluate an expression like:
	World explore
and enjoy."





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