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volkert-2

Creating class with empty Catagory!

Would it be nicer to open a Altert box?

BW,
Volkert

Marcus Denker-4

Re: Creating class with empty Catagory!

Yes, this could definitely be inmproved. An idea would be a dialog with a pre-filled class definition that has
useful defaults.
This way when demoing, you can just accept the empty and nevertheless a class is created just by pressing “ok”
in this dialog.

> On 08 Sep 2015, at 11:28, Volkert <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Would it be nicer to open a Altert box?
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> BW,
> Volkert
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Ben Coman

Re: Creating class with empty Catagory!

In reply to this post by volkert-2

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Volkert <[hidden email]> wrote:

Would it be nicer to open a Alert box?

Yes. Now maybe it should not be done directly from here...

SlotClassBuilder >> category: aCategory

aCategory isEmpty ifTrue: [ InvalidPackageName signal: 'The Category should not be empty' ].

category := aCategory

...since that might(?) introduce a dependency from the kernel to the UI. But maybe further down the stack in one of...

PackageTreeNautilusUI(AbstractNautilusUI)

>> compileAClassFrom: aString notifying: aController

>> compileSource: aText notifying: aController

there could be an error handler. Would you like to have a go at it?

cheers -ben

stepharo

Re: Creating class with empty Catagory!

In reply to this post by Marcus Denker-4

Marcus I would simply not put empty we have unpackaged let us use it by
default.
The empty category is a bad idea and we should address it because many
people are getting burned.

> Yes, this could definitely be inmproved. An idea would be a dialog with a pre-filled class definition that has
> useful defaults.
> This way when demoing, you can just accept the empty and nevertheless a class is created just by pressing “ok”
> in this dialog.
>
>
>> On 08 Sep 2015, at 11:28, Volkert <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Would it be nicer to open a Altert box?
>>
>> BW,
>> Volkert
>>
>> <gabhajcb.png>
>
>