[ENH] Browser category enhancements

Norton, Chris chrisn at Kronos.com
Fri Mar 12 15:37:17 UTC 1999


Carl & I are gratified that somebody finally noticed!

You're very welcome.

---==> Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Doug Way [SMTP:dway at mat.net]
> Sent:	Friday, March 12, 1999 1:21 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: [ENH] Browser category enhancements
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Carl Gundel wrote:
> 
> > This change set includes the following feature enhancements to the 
> > Browser:
> > 1.  Addition of a virtual '**  all  **' message category
> > 2.  Addition of an automatic '**  unclassified  ** category
> > 3.  Addition of a new browser feature for message pane:  'reclassify...'
> 
> Thanks for the enhancement... I've never used the VSE browser (or any
> other browser that had a virtual 'all' category, but it seems immediately
> useful.  (Especially for large objects with lots of message categories
> such as Object or Morph, when I'm looking for a specific method.)  It's
> analagous to the 'all inst vars' item in the Squeak inspectors, something
> I hadn't thought of when using other Smalltalks previously, but something
> I use now all the time. 
> 
> I wasn't sure if I liked the asterisks at first ('all inst vars' doesn't
> use special characters), but it's probably good to make it obvious that
> it's not a normal message category (protocol).
> 
> - Doug Way
>   EAI/Transom Technogies, Ann Arbor, MI
>   dway at eai.com, dway at mat.net
>   http://www.transom.com
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