Hi, Craig!

The reason is that the text-editor menu does not have keyboard focus, 
so it's not receiving any keystrokes, not even escape.

The reason the text-editor menu does not seize keyboard focus is in 
order to preserve the selection in the text pane when the menu is 
popped up.

Ned's 4835ptmMenuFix-nk had re-enabled type-in into text-editor menus 
(i.e. gave them keyboard focus again,) but this was accomplished only 
at the expense of losing the selection, which was the very reason why 
we made text-editor menus refuse keyboard focus in the first place.

I am assuming that no one would argue that it is correct to have the 
selection disappear in a text pane whenever its menu, which after all 
contains items *addressed at that very selection*, is popped up. 
This is not just another mildly quirky Squeak UI idiosyncrasy -- it 
is simply wrong.  IMO anyway.

When someone comes up with an implementation that reliably preserves 
the selection feedback in a text pane while a text-editor menu for 
the pane is up, yet permits type-in into the menu, then we will have 
the best of both worlds, and I think such a contribution would 
receive an immediate and warm welcome from the community.

Until then, the trade-off is this:  we have disabled (temporarily) a 
power-user feature in this one case, creating an inconsistency of 
sorts, in order to avoid an egregious and indefensible error.

Now I wonder how long we'll have to wait before the perfect fix 
appears on the wire...

Cheers,

   -- Scott

PS:  In the meantime, anyone who wishes to make the opposite 
trade-off can readily do this by reverting 
PluggableTextMorph>>yellowButtonActivity: to Ned's 4/15/02 version.


At 5:12 PM -0700 5/29/02, Craig Latta wrote:
>Hi--
>
>	In 3.3a.4881:
>
>-	Open a World menu by pressing escape.
>-	Press escape again; the menu closes.
>-	Open a text pane menu by pressing escape after selecting a text pane.
>-	Press escape again; the menu doesn't close. As far as I can tell, one
>must close that menu via its "close" halo.
>
>	(I'd prefer that this last escape-key event closed the menu. FWIW, I
>think menu-manipulation via the escape key is useful.)
>
>
>	thanks,
>
>-C
>
>--
>Craig Latta