[Cuis-dev] 2 (no, 3) GUI file-ins for your amusement

[stephen at heaveneverywhere.com]

Hi Luciano et al.,

Yeah, I noticed the blue bounding box bug; somebody is still assuming that the scroll bar’s on the right

You’re right that one could collapse the space of the bar is it’s not needed, thereby saving the space.

Also right that the $- in the "sub-category" pane could be dropped. Here’s a fix:
 


Here’s a fixed version of the Hierarchical world menu without the typo:




A single tree for system packages makes it harder to jump around the system than the package browser (we tried these both way back in the 1980s).  Look at the MS-Windows file manager vs the Mac’s.

stp


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> On Jul 11, 2020, at 11:49 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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> Hi Stephen,
> Interesting ideas. I filed in the chagesets in a fully updated Cuis image and noticed some problems:
> 1) The left scrollbar changeset produces an artifact that shows as a blue vertical line on the right when the widget is in focus. Also, although when I saw your post I thought having the scrollbar on the left makes more sense, after trying it I realized this has the side effect of wasting some space: when the scrollbar is not visible because for example a list has only few items the space where the scrollbar would appear is wasted and appears as a blank space in the left of the list. This could be "fixed" by moving the items to the left when the scrollbar is not visible, but I don't like this either... anyway it is a preference, and I'd have to use it more to decide which why I like it more.
> 2) The second list in the package browser shows items prefixed with a '-' that probably shouldn't be there.
> 3) The third changeset contains a class method in TheWorldMenu without selector, not sure how that happened.
> 
> Have you considered using a single tree for the package browser instead of two lists? Some time ago I implemented this for the Browser. I had to make some changes to HierarchicalListMorph and ListItemWrapper in order to support trees with multiple roots (as in this case you would have a root per package or per first word of a system category). My idea was to use this to show namespaces, displaying the root item as '[VectorGraphics]' instead of 'VectorGraphics' for example.
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> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:58 AM Stephen Pope via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here are 2 small packages I’d like to share.
> 
> 1. Left-hand scroll bars - adds a preference for scroll-bars-on-the-left (where they belong).
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> 2. Package browser - the old “6-paned” browser where class category names are split at the first ‘-‘ to create a tree.  Note that if you add this, it makes sense to rename a few categories, like the Exceptions to be Kernel-Exceptions, etc.
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> 3. Hierarchical world menu - adds a preference for a hierarchical world menu
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> stp
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