Doug--

WOW! thanks! that's a good booster [smile]. i'll think about the added
functionality you wrote about...right now i'm working on morph-izing the ole
SystemMonitor. sure, it doesn't do much, but it's a good way to get started
with morphic.

the main prob i'm having, tho, is what data do i display for
garbageCollection? i have no idea right now... right now i'm just displaying
fullGCs (Smalltalk getVMParameters at: 7) added to incrGCs (Smalltalk
getVMParameters at: 9). of course, this lends nothing much as far as
tracking goes 'cause it just goes up and up and up. can someone give me any
idea as to what i should track? just a askin' [smile].

oh yeah, what other data besides memory usage, garbageCollection, and upTime
would you all like to have in a SystemMonitor? someone posted an [ENH] a
couple of weeks ago that listed the system's processes. would something
similar that be something to include?

jason "the trying hard newbie"

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>From: Doug Way <dway at mat.net>
>To: Jason McVay <jmcvay at bigfoot.com>
>Subject: Re: [ENH] ListItemSelectByLetter
>Date: Fri, Sep 24, 1999, 7:39 PM
>

>
> I meant to respond to this earlier, but what with the list being down and
> all...
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason McVay wrote:
>
>> howdy!
>>
>> this changeset allows you, when the focus is on a ListMorph, to hit any
>> character key sans command keys and, if there is a list item that starts
>> with that letter, it is highlighted. subsequent hits of the same letter
>> selects the next item in the list that starts with that character.
>
> This works great, thanks.  It would be nice if this type of functionality
> made it into the base image at some point.
>
> I had thought about implementing this myself awhile back...  However, I
> would probably implement it so that each successive character typed would
> add to a current "search string", kind of like a ctrl-s search in Emacs,
> if you're familiar with that.
>
> For example, typing the letters "html-t" in the class category list would
> take you directly to the category "HTML-Tokenizer".  The first "h" you
> typed would take you to the first match ("HTML-Formatter"), typing the
> subsequent "tml-" would stay in the same place since it still matched,
> then the last "t" would skip to "HTML-Tokenizer".  (The class category
> list isn't a great example for this since groups of categories have
> similar prefixes.)
>
> I think this scheme is better from a UI point of view, but it does have
> one problem that yours doesn't... how does one determine when the user has
> finished entering a string, and wants to search for a different item?
> This could be done with a time limit, or when focus has left the pane, or
> when a <return> character has been typed, or...?  Anyway, I was going to
> try to implement this for Whisker at some point, so I guess we'll see what
> works best.
>
>> the caveat to this is that from now on you have to hit the command key
> in
>> concert with a character in order to get at the special functions.
>> personally, i think having to use the command key is more natural
> anyway...
>
> I agree.  It's also more consistent with how the key commands work in the
> TextMorph menus.  (I wasn't even aware than you didn't need to use
> command/alt for ListMorph menu key commands until now.)
>
>> --jason "the trying hard newbie" mcvay
>
> Pretty darn good for a newbie. :-)  Often, the best way to learn Squeak is
> by doing.
>
> - Doug Way
>   EAI/Transom Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI
>   http://www.transom.com
>   dway at mat.net, @eai.com
>