[squeak-dev] Search bar, or is it?

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Apr 27 15:13:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ian Trudel wrote:

> Levente,
>
> The problem is that I don't really get it when you call this a
> feature. It is literally at the expense of having a coherent user
> interface. My understanding of the feature as you describe it is for
> quick evaluation, which means there should be very little reason to be
> able to input lengthy code. The search bar could extend on its own on
> print it but it would be perhaps better to have some kind of tool tip
> with the print out. In fact, why not inspect it rather than print it?

Because the goal of this feature is to avoid opening windows.


Levente

> It would mean no need to resize anything.
>
> Ian.
>
> 2010/4/27 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ian Trudel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Levente,
>>>
>>> There was a screenshot attached to my previous message. Press and hold
>>> a key in the search bar and look at your screen. The entire menu bar
>>> will grow as the characters will exceed the search bar's width and it
>>> will take over all the screen.
>>
>> That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's a feature. I guess you didn't
>> try what I suggested. So please try one of these:
>> 0 tinyBenchmarks
>> Smalltalk garbageCollect
>> [ Object compileAll ] bench
>>
>> It can be improved of course (by making sure that only the search bar grows
>> and not the whole docking bar), but the feature freeze of 4.1 was too close
>> when we added the search bar.
>>
>>
>> Levente
>>
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>> 2010/4/27 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Ian Trudel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Y'all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I hereby demand that we rename the search bar to fun bar! 'Cause it's
>>>>> a lot of fun. :)
>>>>
>>>> This is a feature. It lets us use the search bar as an expression
>>>> evaluator.
>>>> Just press Ctrl+0, type your expression and print it. You don't have to
>>>> open
>>>> (or find) a workspace for that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Levente
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian.
>>>>> --
>>>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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