"Andrew C. Greenberg" wrote:
> 
> > That would be a fine thing. I think it would also be useful if the
> > list would be dynamically updated with the things you type in.
> >
> > It could also automatically be resorted, for example
> > 1) most recently used item at the top
> > 2) most frequently used item at the top
> > 3) alphabetically
> 
> I'd far prefer that nothing like that happen.  At present, I can
> order the thing any way I want, so the protocol is presented in the
> most logical fashion.  I would hate to have the thing rearrange the
> protocol based on one of the preceding criteria, which are unrelated
> to the content of the protocol, if I didn't want it to do so.

Oh, sorry, my comment seems to have been misleading.
I did not want to propose to automatically reorder the items in the browser's protocol list.

Tim said:
> In popup queries (like the one you get from a Browser whilst adding a new item
> in the protocol pane) it would be useful to have a popup menu of common
> options.

I was referring to the "list of common options"

It's sort of a generalized version of the "recent classes..." menu item in the browser's Categories Pane. Here you have a sorted list of the classes you visited most recently. Analogously, every popup entry box could have a sorted list of the Strings you entered into it most recently (frequently, etc.).

My proposition may be more suitable to other popup queries than to the "add item to protocol list" Tim gave as an example. I think for this case Bert's recent addition is definitely better.

Joern