Scott,

I think perhaps the Right Way (tm) to handle this would be not to show a continuous readout in the viewer. The #color:sees: test doesn't show anything and I don't think that any of the other complex tests would really have to (yes, I absolutely understand that the performance hit is not acceptable here). It's nice if you can see the value in the viewer but it is not essential. Or perhaps we could put in something like "???" that only shows the value when you explicitly ask for it (e.g., do some interaction like clicking on it).

Cheers, - Andreas

-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-admin@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-admin@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Scott Wallace Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:29 AM To: Bert Freudenberg Cc: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: [BUG] SeesColor Tile gone?

Hi, Bert,

It was a nice feature because you could actually watch its value change in the Viewer as you moved the object around. And because it was conceptually simpler than "colorSees".

However, I discovered that there was a *huge* performance price paid for having this item updating continuously in an open viewer, and since I had never seen anyone use the feature, I commented it out.

If you want it back, I'm sure you know how to do that ;-)

Cheers,

-- Scott

PS: Sorry this got lost in my out-basket for 6 weeks ;-(

At 11:13 AM +0100 10/28/02, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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I can't find the seesColor:/isOverColor: tile anymore. But

the code is

...

still there. Where did it go?

Funny enough, the viewer for the car in the "Building with

Squeak" project

...

in the prebuilt Squeak3.3a-4981 image has a "test" category

open still

...

showing that tile. But in a newly opened viewer it's gone.

-- Bert