Yes, I think menus should become scroll-able if they overflow vertical
space.
I'm not sure how much work it would be to implement this though...

Best,
Karl



On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:29 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> > Don't forget that you probably received the initial live introduction
> lecture at HPI ;-)
> > I still believe that all those Smalltalk tools with unlabeled lists are
> mystical at first without some kind of introduction, either by a peer or by
> a book/manual/tutorial/...
>
> Well, that's correct :-)
> Squeak by Example may be a good point to start, but I would not
> start myself by reading a book.
> Do we have some interactive tutorial stuff? Something like
> https://amber-lang.net/learn.html, just for Squeak and much larger.
> It is good that Nicola makes some YouTube content for Squeak, we could
> really need more of this stuff.
>
> @Karl
> > For example of menu overflowing vertical space: WorldMenu/ new
> morph.../ from alphabetical list/
>
> Ouch, this is indeed ugly. Maybe MenuMorph should be a ScrollPane?
>
> Best,
> Christoph
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>
> Am Fr., 24. Jan. 2020 um 15:29 Uhr schrieb Thiede, Christoph <
> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
>
>> I come from a generation that never consults an owner manual for an
>> application until physical coercion is applied :) Intuitivity first,
>> always, ever, of course! That's the way I learned Squeak until now, so we
>> are not on a bad path
>>
> Don't forget that you probably received the initial live introduction
> lecture at HPI ;-)
> I still believe that all those Smalltalk tools with unlabeled lists are
> mystical at first without some kind of introduction, either by a peer or by
> a book/manual/tutorial/...
>
>
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