[ANN] Preference Browser

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Sep 19 17:50:57 UTC 2004


keep improving it because I would really like to use it instead of the 
preference morph
which is limited.

Stef
On 19 sept. 04, at 19:36, Hernan Tylim wrote:

> Hi Stephane
>
> 	Thanks for taking time in trying PreferenceBrowser.
>
> 	As you guessed local is the 'local to project' setting. Note
> that right-clicking (yellow button) over a preference you get the same
> pop-up menu than in the old PreferencesPanel so you have those options
> available too.
>
> 	About the iconic/halos choice you are right too. I will be
> adding those shortly.
>
> 	The reason why they are not yet is because they are not an
> instance of Preference, and I want to change that. The problem I found
> is that currently Preference are only for boolean preferences and I
> would like to have FontPreferences, ColorPreferences and
> IconicPreferences all setteable from the PreferenceBrowser. But before
> doing that I wanted to have some feedback from the list.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Regards,
> Hernán
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of stéphane ducasse
>> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 1:48 PM
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> Subject: Re: [ANN] Preference Browser
>>
>>
>> Hi hernan
>>
>> this is quite nice. What local means? that a preference can only be
>> local to one project?
>> Then I could not find the iconic/... halos choices.
>>
>> The space for the description is sligtly too small.
>>
>> I really like the scrollbars because often with the preference panel
>> some of the choices were out of the morph
>> and then unreachable.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>> On 19 sept. 04, at 18:27, Hernan Tylim wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> 	Yesterday I was a little bored and because I never liked the
>>> Preferences Panel of Squeak I can now proudly present to you ...
>>> Preference Browser, my replacement for the PreferencesPanel.
>>>
>>> 	Currently PreferenceBrowser has the same features of the legacy
>>> one but with a new-look.
>>>
>>> 	If the community feels that PreferenceBrowser could be an
>>> in-image package to replace the old PreferencesPanel, I would feel
>>> encouraged to keep working on it.
>>>
>>> 	Well, here it is, please enjoy it (it is also available from
>>> SqueakMap and SqueakSource)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hernán
>>> <PreferenceBrowser-hpt.4.mcz>
>>
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