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