[BUG] File-list buttons & menus broken

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jan 30 21:46:09 UTC 2002


Hi Scott

I do not have the time to look at that right now. I can have a look at it
(tomorow morning: around 11 hours form now). So if somebody wants to fix
that. I have problems to see what happen because I used this changeset for a
while. May be I sent a wrong one. Gloops.

> In 3.3a, after the file-list-registry code is in (update 4684,) the
> "file in" and "file in to new" buttons in a (morphic) file list no
> longer work -- hitting either one causes an error.
> 
> Also, the wording and the functioning of the menu items of the "all
> possible file operations" menu (which you get by choosing more...
> from the file-list menu) have not been brought into conformity with
> the revised wordings and protocols.
> 
> So in this "all possible file operations" menu you see the old
> wordings, and nearly all of the choices drop you into debuggers.

This I knew. 
 
> Most of the errors relate to numerous methods (27, in fact) from the
> former FileList protocol that got removed by update 4684, even though
> they still had senders in the image.
> 
> To anyone wishing to contribute to fixing these up (we should of
> course first wait to hear from Stephane about this,) I would suggest
> first making certain that the #thoroughSenders preference is set to
> true (as it should be for any serious development work in Squeak
> anyway) and then pointing a Change Sorter at update 4684, and from
> there looking at the senders of every method *removed* from FileList
> by that update (just click on the method name in the selector-list,
> and hit cmd-n.)  Each such query (e.g. for browseFile, fileInAll,
> fileInSelection, openAsFlash) will result in a senders browser,
> showing methods that may need to be fixed up because of the protocol
> changes to FileList.
> 
> 
> -- Scott
> 




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