UI Buttons (was Re: [squeak-dev] MessageNames: clicking on class names)

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Fri Apr 2 21:50:27 UTC 2010


Dear fellow Squeakers,

I think I solved the issue with resizing button heights which was bothering me for a long time as well. I copied the following package versions to the inbox:
- MorphicTests-bp.14
- ToolBuilder-MVC-bp.19
- Tools-bp.220
- Monticello-bp.387

Please review it and let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Bernhard

Am 02.04.2010 um 23:02 schrieb Ken Causey:

> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 18:38 +0200, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> Ken Causey wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:20 -0600, Chris Muller wrote:
>>>>> I noticed that the new search morph in the docking bar will bring up class
>>>>> names as well as selector names. For instance, searching for "obj" will show
>>>>> things like "AbstractObjectsAsMethod".
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you hit the browse button on these entries, though, nothing happens.
>>>> This is because the preference, #alternativeBrowseIt is disabled, by
>>>> default.  Crazy isn't it?  If just enable that and you can (b)rowse
>>>> hierarchy's, i(m)plementors, or se(n)ders with those keys..
>>>> 
>>>> - Chris
>>> 
>>> It's not that simple.  There is another clearly related problem that
>>> this does not address (oh, and your solution does not fix the problem,
>>> it simply leaves out the most glaring instance of the problem).  The
>>> 'instance', '?', 'class' buttons have the same problem as the alternate
>>> browser buttons.  Even more fun because they are in a subpane of the
>>> upper frame, try to enlarge just the source code pane by pulling the
>>> main divider up...the instance/?/class button pane is squashed and once
>>> it reaches it's lower limit you can't move the main divider up any
>>> farther.  Instead you have to start by dragging up the divider between
>>> the pane listing the classes and the button pane then drag up the
>>> overall divider leaving enough space for the buttons.  Not intuitive in
>>> my book.
>> 
>> Ah, now that I play around with the Browser, I see what you mean. The 
>> behaviour is... not ideal.
>> 
>> I'd like to see the instance/?/class buttons resize like the 
>> browse/send/implementor/etc buttons: constant size up until a point, and 
>> then decreasing proportional to their containing panel.
>> 
>> I think you'd get this by putting both the instance/?/class buttons' 
>> PluggablePanel and the class list's PluggableListMorphPlus inside a 
>> common parent PluggablePanel.
>> 
>> I'll try play around with it tonight and see what I can do. (Given that 
>> my total ToolBuilder experience is the hour I spent on 
>> Tools-fbs.(220|221).mcz, I look forward to gentle pointers on how to not 
>> make a hash of things!)
>> 
>> frank
> 
> Thanks Frank,
> 
> I'm puzzled.  What is the use case for having the buttons resized?  It
> seems to me that a button has a desirable size and you make it that size
> and leave it.
> 
> I appreciate your looking into this.
> 
> Ken
> 




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list