Hi guy

I found the way of VW (not the default in the current version but you 
can set it this way)
really good. When you do not select a category you see all the methods.
This way you have both behavior. You have to select a real category to 
enter your method
but you everything ***without*** clicking :)

Stef

On mercredi, décembre 18, 2002, at 08:49  pm, Doug Way wrote:

>
> (forwarded from the Squeakfoundation list... this discussion is 
> probably more appropriate for squeak-dev)
>
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>
>> Methinks that perhaps the real problem is the automatic selection of
>> '--all--' in the browser. If this weren't there, the mechanism would 
>> be
>> rather obvious - you select the class you edit the class. You select a
>> method category you edit a method. This is already true *except* for 
>> the
>> '--all--' category which attempts to edit the class definition when it
>> is selected.
>
> I guess I would be somewhat opposed to removing the automatic 
> selection of '--all--' in the browser, since I feel that the 
> convenience of always seeing the methods (when selecting classes) 
> greatly outweighs the mild inconsistency of not being able to enter 
> new methods while '--all--' is selected.  But reasonable people may 
> disagree. :-)  Any opinions on this?  Perhaps there is a solution 
> which would address both problems.
>
> - Doug Way
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: squeakfoundation-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> [mailto:squeakfoundation-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Doug Way
>>> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:54 PM
>>> To: squeakfoundation at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Squeakfoundation]defineClass fix!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ian Piumarta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Aha, ok - the idea is that it gives you a proper "inform"
>>> instad of
>>>>> "Nothing more expected ->" if you start entering a method
>>> without first
>>>>> selecting a method category. If I understood it correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't this used to (way back yonder) create a new protocol
>>> (or add to an
>>>> existing protocol) called "as yet unclassified" for methods
>>> entered while
>>>> "--all--" is selected?  What happened to that?  (Or did I
>>> simply dream
>>>> that this was the case, in some kind of "perverse hacker
>>> nightmare"?)
>>>
>>> This was changed awhile ago so that you could see the class
>>> template and the class' list of methods at the same time,
>>> when selecting a class in the browser.
>>>
>>> See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/52761 for
>>> more background.
>>>
>>> I could go either way with either using Goran's fix, or just
>>> backing out Torge's enhancement.  Goran said he'd vote to
>>> back out the enhancement, so maybe we should just do that.
>>>
>>> To me, the situation before Torge's enhancement wasn't all
>>> that bad... if I see the class template in the browser text
>>> pane, I know that I won't be able to accept a method there.
>>> Maybe post-3.4, we could make things more newbie-friendly by
>>> adding "define class" and "add method" menu items in the
>>> appropriate browser menus, which would somehow steer people
>>> in the right direction (while still preserving the existing
>>> ways of defining classes & adding methods, of course).
>>>
>>> - Doug
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>
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