[squeak-dev] UI feedback badness in 4.4-12550-ish image

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri May 24 00:22:06 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Bal?zs K?si wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Morphic-kb.652 is a first stab at implementing two-stage highlighting of
> list selections. It changes PluggableListMorph behaviour, which is the
> superclass of MorphicToolBuilder list classes. That means all ToolBuilder
> built lists should be affected. Monticello already uses ToolBuilder if it's
> present (see MCTool>>buildWindow), so the repository inspector
> responsiveness is fixed to some extent.

Thanks for doing this, I like it a lot. I used to have to push really hard
on the mouse button to get a selection, and now I will not need to do that ;-)

I vote to move it to trunk.

Dave



> 
> A next step could be to show a wait cursor while the model is performing
> its actions for the selection, iff the action takes some noticeable time
> (else the cursor flickers annoyingly).
> 
> For the http repository it would be even better to have some kind of
> download manager, which wouldn't block the ui while downloading. (But it
> could have the side effect users downloading unneeded versions in excess).
> 
> Cheers, Bal?zs

> 



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