Menu creation and invocation

> I want to give the thanks to Alain, for the excellent work on
> PragmaMenuBuilder!
> Making menus is elegant and straightforward this way!
>
> I post here how i'm using them:
>
> MyMorph>>mouseDown: aMouseEvent
> aMouseEvent redButtonPressed ifTrue:[ self click: aMouseEvent ].
> aMouseEvent yellowButtonPressed ifTrue:[ self leftClick: aMouseEvent ].
>
> MyMorph>>leftClick: aMouseEvent
> self menuBuilder menu popUpInWorld
>
> MyMorph>>menuBuilder
> ^ (PragmaMenuBuilder pragmaKeyword: 'tileMenu' model: self)
>
> And you can nicely decouple the menu invocation from the menu creation!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Fernando
>
>

> he he he.
> thanks Fernando.
> and really really happy that you find it useful.
>
> but is see maybe an issue here. It concerns the pragma keyword.
> It is currently a global keyword.
> Maybe one should also allow a way to specify where the pragma are to be collected.
> maybe something like:
>
> MyMorph>>menuBuilder
> ^ (PragmaMenuBuilder localPragmaKeyword: 'tileMenu' model: self )
>
> notice the #localPragmaKeyword:model selector instead of #pragmaKeyword:model.
> it would constraint the builder to only search pragma locally.
> does it make sense to you ?
>
> Cheers
> Alain

> On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:51 47PM, Alain Plantec wrote:
>
>> he he he.
>> thanks Fernando.
>> and really really happy that you find it useful.
>>
>> but is see maybe an issue here. It concerns the pragma keyword.
>> It is currently a global keyword.
>> Maybe one should also allow a way to specify where the pragma are to be collected.
>> maybe something like:
>>
>> MyMorph>>menuBuilder
>>       ^ (PragmaMenuBuilder localPragmaKeyword: 'tileMenu' model: self )
>>
>> notice the #localPragmaKeyword:model selector instead of #pragmaKeyword:model.
>> it would constraint the builder to only search pragma locally.
>> does it make sense to you ?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Alain
>
> Yes, searching the class only would be a good idea, I'd almost consider making it the default and rename #pragmaKeyword: to #globalPragmaKeyword:.
> It's faster, and in most cases it does what you need, also in the case where you want  extensibility (through extension methods, only risk is clashing names)
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Henrik Johansen
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:51 47PM, Alain Plantec wrote:
>>
>>> he he he.
>>> thanks Fernando.
>>> and really really happy that you find it useful.
>>>
>>> but is see maybe an issue here. It concerns the pragma keyword.
>>> It is currently a global keyword.
>>> Maybe one should also allow a way to specify where the pragma are to be collected.
>>> maybe something like:
>>>
>>> MyMorph>>menuBuilder
>>>       ^ (PragmaMenuBuilder localPragmaKeyword: 'tileMenu' model: self )
>>>
>>> notice the #localPragmaKeyword:model selector instead of #pragmaKeyword:model.
>>> it would constraint the builder to only search pragma locally.
>>> does it make sense to you ?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Alain
>>
>> Yes, searching the class only would be a good idea, I'd almost consider making it the default and rename #pragmaKeyword: to #globalPragmaKeyword:.
>> It's faster, and in most cases it does what you need, also in the case where you want  extensibility (through extension methods, only risk is clashing names)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
>>
>
> Hi, since i'm new to pragmas  could you please explain me the
> diference between global and local searches.
> I dont understand to whom the local and global context applies to,
> when using #localPragmaKeyword:model: as oposed to
> #pragmaKeyword:model:.
>
> Fernando
>