[squeak-dev] [ANN] Preference pragmas

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 5 00:23:43 UTC 2009


Michael Rueger wrote:
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Folks -
>>
>> I wanted to make the property whether to show individual processes in
>> MessageTally a preference and couldn't recall any of the three
>> gazillion methods to create one ;-) So I decided enough is enough and
>> added the ability to register a preference via Pragma. In other
>> words, you specify two class side accessors (using MessageTally as
>> example):
>>
>> showProcesses
>>     "Indicates whether to show each process separately or cumulatively."
>>     <preference: 'Show Processes in MessageTally'
>>         category: 'debug'
>>         balloonHelp: 'If enabled, each profiled process is shown
>> individually in MessageTally'
>>         type: #Boolean>
>>     ^ShowProcesses
>
> Looking at your version I see you made some slightly different design
> choices than in the design that has been in design discussion and
> worked on in the last couple of weeks on the Pharo list.
>
> Can you elaborate what motivated the different design? Meaning what
> parts of the Pharo version could be made better? Or, sorry for
> basically asking the same thing three times, what would it take to
> adopt the Pharo version for Squeak?
>
> Michael
>
>
Hallelujah,

thank you Michael

Keith




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