Actually, I tried several different choices for doMenuItem and 
many of then had results that were ... bizarre.

I was trying to learn Squeak, and the Rolodex tutorial seemed an 
apopros place to start (because I would have a use for the 
result), so I began.  The screen design went along fairly well. 
  (I started from scratch a few times, just to be certain I was 
doing things correctly, and, naturally, found out that I hadn't 
been :-).  Then I got the to scripting section...

The blue eye opened the scripting window properly, and choosing 
the miscellaneous tag got me to the correct section of the 
scripts list.  But when I tried to specialize the domenuitem 
choice...
If I pick 'search for text', then the choice simply disappears 
from the script.  If I look at the code, domenuitem: is 
attempting to execute a null string.  Typing it in by hand 
doesn't help.  This is the stranger as it worked the first time 
that I tried it (even though the command appeared blank in the 
graphic representation).

Experimentation showed that several other commands also yielded 
a blank choice, and some yielded a choice that didn't match what 
they should have matched (i.e., the text changed after I 
selected the choice from the menu).

This was all with a freshly downloaded (11/8/2001) copy of the 
windows version of Squeak 3.0 (and upgraded).  Well, the 
tutorial said that it was run against 3.1, so perhaps I should 
to the upgrade to 3.1alpha ... no change.

I don't really have much of a clue as to what is going on (this 
was the first time I has as much as looked at a Smalltalk in 3 
years), but the mailing list archives seem to say that something 
that might be similar to this was happening back in June.  Or 
perhaps in February (there were two occurances, one of which 
even involved the Rolodex tutorial [not surprising... I was 
searching for something to help figure this out]).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for your patience.
-- 
Charles Hixson

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