Working Together
Joshua Gargus
gargus at cs.ualberta.ca
Wed Jul 14 17:20:16 UTC 1999
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Hi Chris,
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Norton, Chris wrote:
> > Hi Dwight & co .
> >
> > Actually, I guess I was hinting at Squeak's lack of a "window menu"
> > feature (I know that this is a sensitive subject, so I won't belabor it
> > :-). You could say that I have fully bought into the window menu concept
> > that is prevalent in M$ Windows & in Macintoshes (don't know about
> > UNIX/Linux). One great thing about a resident window menu is that its
> > contents are right in your face. You don't have to right (or middle)
> > mouse click and then follow a bunch of popup menus to find stuff.
> >
I'm not sure what you mean by a 'Window Menu'. Are you talking about
the 'Start' button in Windows?
One thing I fully bought into about Windows (the only thing?) was the
use of Alt-Tab to switch between windows. I've implemented something
like this for Squeak. Check out http://www.ualberta.ca/~jgargus/squeak.html
I'm not sure if my 'WindowSelection' changeset is what you're looking for.
It's not completely feature-rich, but it does the trick for me. If anyone has
a feature that they'd like to have added, email me and I'll put it in.
BTW, it works well with 'BrowserKeyboardEnhancements' (also on my web
page).
> > I was suggesting that the next best thing to providing a window menu
> > feature to Squeak, might be to have a button or button panel (think
> > toolbar w/ tooltips!) that would have commonly used features on it (like
> > "update from server"). If it is right there in my face, I'm sure I'll use
> > it. In fact, the first thing I always do with a new image is to open up
> > the commonly used popup menus and make them stay open.
> >
I think this exists already. If you use global flaps in Morphic (toggle
Preferences->useGlobalFlaps), then the flap on the left has an update
button.
Bye,
Josh
> > ---==> Chris
> >
> > PS> Speaking as a recent newbie, sometimes a bigger hammer IS necessary!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dwight Hughes [SMTP:dwighth at ipa.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 12:19 PM
> > To: Chris Norton
> > Subject: Re: Working Together
> >
> > "Norton, Chris" wrote:
> > > bit at first, because I didn't know how to file in new code. However,
> > the
> > > "update from server" feature, is great! It really should have a place
> > of
> > > honor on the default image. Perhaps a small morphic world with an
> > "update
> > > from server" button could be included somewhere on the base image.
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean here -- there is already "update code
> > from server" on the "help..." menu in the screen menu. Are you referring
> > to updating from a local server instead?
> >
> > -- Dwight
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