RE: defineClass fix!

Methinks that perhaps the real problem is the automatic selection of
'--all--' in the browser. If this weren't there, the mechanism would be
rather obvious - you select the class you edit the class. You select a
method category you edit a method. This is already true *except* for the
'--all--' category which attempts to edit the class definition when it
is selected.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Doug Way
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:54 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Squeakfoundation]defineClass fix!
> 
> 
> 
> Ian Piumarta wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > > Aha, ok - the idea is that it gives you a proper "inform" 
> instad of
> > > "Nothing more expected ->" if you start entering a method 
> without first
> > > selecting a method category. If I understood it correctly.
> > 
> > Didn't this used to (way back yonder) create a new protocol 
> (or add to an
> > existing protocol) called "as yet unclassified" for methods 
> entered while
> > "--all--" is selected?  What happened to that?  (Or did I 
> simply dream
> > that this was the case, in some kind of "perverse hacker 
> nightmare"?)
> 
> This was changed awhile ago so that you could see the class 
> template and the class' list of methods at the same time, 
> when selecting a class in the browser.
> 
> See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/52761 for 
> more background.
> 
> I could go either way with either using Goran's fix, or just 
> backing out Torge's enhancement.  Goran said he'd vote to 
> back out the enhancement, so maybe we should just do that.
> 
> To me, the situation before Torge's enhancement wasn't all 
> that bad... if I see the class template in the browser text 
> pane, I know that I won't be able to accept a method there.  
> Maybe post-3.4, we could make things more newbie-friendly by 
> adding "define class" and "add method" menu items in the 
> appropriate browser menus, which would somehow steer people 
> in the right direction (while still preserving the existing 
> ways of defining classes & adding methods, of course).
> 
> - Doug
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