[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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