[Cuis-dev] System Browser "show..." button

[Mark Volkmann]

If I remember correctly, the row of buttons in System Browsers that begins
with "browse" and "senders" used to end with a "show..." button. Was that
functionality removed or moved to somewhere else? I had written the
following notes about it:

The "show..." button displays a popup list of ways the selected item can be
displayed in the bottom pane. Each option is represented by a checkbox, but
only one can be selected.

The default option is "source" which merely displays the source code of the
selected method. This is typically the desired choice.

Selecting "documentation" only displays the signature and comment for the
selected item. When there is no comment, it displays "Has no comment".

Selecting "prettyPrint" displays the code for a method in a nicely
formatted way, but doesn't actually modify the code.

Selecting "lineDiffs", "wordDiffs", "linePrettyDiffs", or "wordPrettyDiffs"
has the same functionality as described earlier for "Recent versions"
windows.

Selecting "decompile" displays code that is similar to the source code, but
variable names are changed. Parameter variable names are replaced by
`arg1`, `arg2`, and so on. Local variable names are replaced by `temp1`,
`temp2`, and so on. It's not clear when this would be useful.

Selecting "byteCodes" displays the byte codes generated by the method
source code. This could be useful for evaluating the efficiency of the code.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
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