Automatic selection of '--all--'

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Dec 18 20:27:18 UTC 2002


Hi chris

you can be proud of this addition because VisualWorks copied it and 
improves it.
I think that their way of doing is really good because you do not need 
the ---all---
at all.

On mercredi, décembre 18, 2002, at 09:16  pm, Norton, Chris wrote:

> Since Carl & I implemented the '--all--' feature, I'm invested in this
> discussion; sorry I missed out on the earlier thread.
>
> The intention of the '--all--' feature is clear, I think.  Prior to the
> feature, the browsers were very unfriendly, in that you had to hunt & 
> peck
> through each method category to find a method.
>
> The intentional implementation of this feature is that when you click 
> on a
> class, the '--all--' category will be selected by default, offering 
> you a
> quick look at a pane-full of the available protocol.  At least one
> commercial Smalltalk works this way (Visual Smalltalk Enterprise).
>
> The original design of the '--all--' feature also provided for adding
> methods while the '--all--' is selected.  The new method should go 
> into the
> 'as yet unclassified' category, which should be dynamically generated 
> if it
> does not already exist.
>
> I was not aware that this feature was broken.  I guess I normally 
> create or
> select categories prior to creating new methods.
>
> In my opinion, we should just fix the bug(s) so that the feature works 
> as I
> originally designed it to work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---==> Chris
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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