On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Norton, Chris wrote:
> Hi Dan & company.
> 
> Dan Ingalls wrote:  
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> "It occurred to me that it's silly for the browser to show both 'all' and
> 'as yet unclassified', and also silly to show both 'all' and 'no messages'."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> I don't have time to work on this feature right now, so I'm not
> volunteering.  However, I was the original implementor of the "all" feature
> (with Carl Gundel), so I do have some thoughts as to your enhancement
> suggestion.
> 
> 1.  I agree that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to display the "all"
> category if there are "no messages".
> 2.  I do not agree that the "all" and the "as yet unclassified" categories
> are redundant.  This would only be true if there were no method categories
> defined for the class.  If any user defined method categories exist, then
> the "as yet unclassified" is needed to indicate that there are some
> unclassified methods.  In this scenario, the "all" category provides the
> service of seeing all of the methods in the method pane without having to
> click on different method categories.  In my opinion, this is a good thing.

I had a mail all written with the same criticism, but at the last minute read
the code fragment that Dan had attached.  The fragment makes it clear that the
intention is to not show 'as yet unclassified' methods when this is the only
category... if other categories exist, then 'a.y.u.' will still be shown.

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> 
> I wish you all a happy Friday.  :-)

Ditto.

Joshua

> 
> ---==> Chris

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