Code mentor suggestion

Andy, Blair,

Another way you might save screen space is to utilize the agent's ability to
display a menu.  The agent could gesture and/or a status bar field could
show that it has something to say, and the details could be presented in
menu choices.  I'll gladly share the results of my reverse engineering in
that direction if you are interested.

Have a good one,

Bill

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Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
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Bill,

> Another way you might save screen space is to utilize the agent's ability
to
> display a menu.  The agent could gesture and/or a status bar field could
> show that it has something to say, and the details could be presented in
> menu choices.  I'll gladly share the results of my reverse engineering in
> that direction if you are interested.

Well that is effectively what happens. The mentor runs as a Class/System
Browser plugin. One can see if it has anything to say mereely by looking at
the icon in the plugin's tab. If it is a "smiley face" then everything is
ok. Anything else points to the fact that it may be worthwhile switching to
the tab and finding out how your code is deficient in some way.

Best Regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
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Andy,

> Well that is effectively what happens. The mentor runs as a Class/System
> Browser plugin. One can see if it has anything to say mereely by looking
at
> the icon in the plugin's tab. If it is a "smiley face" then everything is
> ok. Anything else points to the fact that it may be worthwhile switching
to
> the tab and finding out how your code is deficient in some way.

So it's a separate tab, not something arranged along side the source?  Or is
the source shown again on the tab with the mentor's output?  Either way
would allow it to work without taking screen space until it's needed -
that's really what I'm suggesting.

Have a good one,

Bill

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"Bill Schwab" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Andy,
>
> > Well that is effectively what happens. The mentor runs as a Class/System
> > Browser plugin. One can see if it has anything to say mereely by looking
> at
> > the icon in the plugin's tab. If it is a "smiley face" then everything
is
> > ok. Anything else points to the fact that it may be worthwhile switching
> to
> > the tab and finding out how your code is deficient in some way.
>
> So it's a separate tab, not something arranged along side the source?

Yes, as shown in the slides accompanying our talk (on page 11):

http://www.object.arts.dial.pipex.com/oopsla/XP-BestFriend.pdf

Regards

Blair