[enh request]menus of options in popup queries

Les Tyrrell tyrrell at canis.uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 10 22:51:09 UTC 1999


> I've never got around to doing an enhancement that seems like a simple and
> useful idea. Somebody playing with UI stuff might like to try this:-
> 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. Things like
> instance creation
> initialization
> accessing
> enumerating
> mumbling
> thingies

Smalltalk/X has had this for quite a while, in the form of a dialog
that could be brought up with a list of category names to choose.
In a given image, there could be quite a few.

I believe I've also seen method protocol browsers, where you could select
method protocols and then the class>>method to browse. This may have
been part of either Smalltalk/X or perhaps it was something that Aoki
did in Jun or Mei.

And now I'm looking at the browsers in the VisualWorks 5i beta... oh my.

les





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