[Cuis-dev] [FIX] Re: Wrong feedback adding an extension category?

[Gerald Klix]

Hi List Members, Hi Juan,

Please find enclosed a fix for the issue Hannes observed.
I did only test it with Haver/Cuis 7.2, but I presume it will work
for Cuis'  rolling release, as well.


HTH,

Gerald


On 3/8/25 5:06 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Confirmed!
>
> There is are two issues with Browser>>#addExtensionCategory.
> First there is a coding error, this fragment
>
> (packageNames includes:                (newCategoryName copyUpTo: $-) 
> allButFirst
>
> should read
>
> (packageNames includes:                (newCategoryName copyUpToLast: 
> $-) allButFirst.
>
> The conceptional problem is that there should be some message that
> should complain in a sensible way if you use just the package name as 
> category (after the ‚*‘).
>
> Please give me 45 minutes to fix this.
>
> The intended use is to choose an existing category – ‚menu‘
> in your case – and than choose „Add extension Category ...“
> The text-input morph should contain the name 
> „Graphics-Files-Additiona-menu“
> in this case.
>
>
> Til later,
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On 3/6/25 5:39 PM, H. Hirzel via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to add the method #exportAsPNG given below to class 
>> Morph with an extension category indicating that it belongs to 
>> package 'Graphics-Files-Additional'. The package has been loaded before.
>>
>> If I choose the menu option 'New extension Category ...' I get
>>
>>     'The selected prefix does not match any package name. Do you want 
>> to use it anyway?'
>>
>> If I say yes I can add it. However the feedback given seems to be wrong.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Hannes
>>
>> ------------------------
>>
>> exportAsPNG
>>     "Export the receiver's image as a PNG."
>>     self request: 'Enter file name'
>>         initialAnswer: (self printStringLimitedTo: 20),'.png'
>>         do: [:aString| (self imageForm: 32) writePNGfileNamed: aString]
>>
>

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