Dolphin Options problems

Problems with the Dolphin Options editor:

1) It's easy to screw things up by accidentally dragging one option onto
another, e.g. drag Workspace>>defaultFont onto defaultView then try to open
a Workspace (lots of other possibilities too!). Maybe confirm any such
operations?

2) Dragging an item onto a top-level item gives error 'SortedCollection
should not implement #at:put:'

3) Selecting Workspace>>defaultView gives 'a SmalltalkWorkspaceDocument does
not understand setter message #defaultView:' repeatedly.

John

John

Thanks for your bug reports.

You wrote in message news:[hidden email]...
> Problems with the Dolphin Options editor:
>
> 1) It's easy to screw things up by accidentally dragging one option onto
> another, e.g. drag Workspace>>defaultFont onto defaultView then try to
open
> a Workspace (lots of other possibilities too!). Maybe confirm any such
> operations?
>
> 2) Dragging an item onto a top-level item gives error 'SortedCollection
> should not implement #at:put:'

I think these problems also existed in 4.0 (see for example:
http://www.object-arts.com/Lib/EducationCentre4/htm/cautions.htm).

I have an idea for improving this (basically to prompt if one attempts to
change the value of an aspect to an incompatible class), but failing that I
think we should just disable drag&drop in that view as it is too easy to do
it by mistake when attempting to select something. I've recorded these as
defect #473.

> 3) Selecting Workspace>>defaultView gives 'a SmalltalkWorkspaceDocument
does
> not understand setter message #defaultView:' repeatedly.

Defect #474.

Regards

Blair

John,
I
> think we should just disable drag&drop in that view as it is too easy to
do
> it by mistake when attempting to select something. I've recorded these as
> defect #473.

As Blair mentions, the hazards of drag and drop in the PAI were present in
Dolphin 4. I think the facility was added in a frenzy of enthusiasm after we
got D&D working in Dolphin originally. Personally, I've hardly ever used the
D&D in the PAI and therefore have decided to remove it. In the
FlipperInspector this situation is also more symmetrical since the
InstVarInspector currently doesn't support D&D at all.

Best Regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
http://www.object-arts.com
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