[ANN] StarBrowser v4 on SqueakMap

Roel Wuyts roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Dec 9 15:51:28 UTC 2002


On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 07:32 PM, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

[snip]
>
> BTW, I completely agree on the names, Stef's suggested names are simple
> and direct. In/Extensional is a good name for writing papers, bad for a
> tool for the people :-)

Speaking from experience: it is not even good for writing papers :-)
But again: any ideas for better names are appreciated :-)
Seriously, I'm bad at names (come on, do you think StarBrowser is a 
cool name ? :-) :-) ).

>
> Daniel
>
> Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>>> * Get a walkback when I bring up a menu on the items in the
>>> "configure services" window.
>> I can't duplicate that. Can you give me a stack trace?
> Sorry, I was missing information. Open "configure services", without
> selecting any items, press yellow button. If you can't duplicate, I 
> will
> send a stack.
>
>>> * Didn't understand what I'm supposed to do in configure services
>>> and in the edit expressions windows. Balloon help maybe, with a
>>> url?
>>
>> It's a useful place to browse and change those classes while under
>> development.
>>
>> The most useful part, though, is the "become default" choice in the
>> individual services context menu.
>>
>> Try it on ItemExtendedChildren (under "children").
>> What this is: for services other than "button" and "menu" (which are
>> additive) we have a single default service that's used. So
>> ItemExtendedChildren is like ItemChildren, except that it answers
>> message categories as children of classes.
> Aha... look at the pretty lights... it's beautiful.
>
> Ok, so how about this?
>
> ItemLabel>>doXMLNode: aNodeWrapper
> 	| wholeName |
> 	wholeName _ aNodeWrapper node printString.
> 	^wholeName size > 100 ifTrue: [aNodeWrapper node name] ifFalse:
> [wholeName]
>
> I like it, though it might make things slower.
>
> Daniel
>
>
Roel Wuyts                                                   Software 
Composition Group
roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch                       University of Bern, 
Switzerland
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