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Tim Mackinnon

Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

Guys - it's been a while since I've used Pharo, and in 3.0 its come along with leaps and bounds.

But I'm struggling to know what many things mean, and what the UI is telling me? Is it written up somewhere?

I also quite quickly seemed to get into troubles with the new Nautilus browser where it gives me walkbacks and won't let me select things. I've started again with a new image and am trying again to do some simple things - and see if I can come up with the use cases.

As a starting point - I've just created a new class, with a new Category name and the class has a red exclamation mark next to it. What does that mean?

Also what is the difference between Add Class, and Add full Class in the context menu? I ended up just typing over the definition of an existing class as there is no flyover help for either of these to know what it does?

Tim

Richard Wettel-3

Re: Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

Hi Tim

The exclamation mark marks a class that does not have a comment.

Cheers

Ricky

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]> wrote:

Guys - it's been a while since I've used Pharo, and in 3.0 its come along
with leaps and bounds.

But I'm struggling to know what many things mean, and what the UI is telling
me? Is it written up somewhere?

I also quite quickly seemed to get into troubles with the new Nautilus
browser where it gives me walkbacks and won't let me select things. I've
started again with a new image and am trying again to do some simple things
- and see if I can come up with the use cases.

As a starting point - I've just created a new class, with a new Category
name and the class has a red exclamation mark next to it. What does that
mean?

Also what is the difference between Add Class, and Add full Class in the
context menu? I ended up just typing over the definition of an existing
class as there is no flyover help for either of these to know what it does?

Tim

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jfabry

Re: Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

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Hi Tim,

just a quick response to one of your questions: if a class has a red ! in front of it, it means that there is no class comment.

On Jul 9, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Guys - it's been a while since I've used Pharo, and in 3.0 its come along
> with leaps and bounds.
>
> But I'm struggling to know what many things mean, and what the UI is telling
> me? Is it written up somewhere?
>
> I also quite quickly seemed to get into troubles with the new Nautilus
> browser where it gives me walkbacks and won't let me select things. I've
> started again with a new image and am trying again to do some simple things
> - and see if I can come up with the use cases.
>
> As a starting point - I've just created a new class, with a new Category
> name and the class has a red exclamation mark next to it. What does that
> mean?
>
> Also what is the difference between Add Class, and Add full Class in the
> context menu? I ended up just typing over the definition of an existing
> class as there is no flyover help for either of these to know what it does?
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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> View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Red-Exclamation-in-Nautilus-tp4767242.html
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>
>

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Baptiste Quidé

Re: Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

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Hi,

the exclamation mark means that your class has no class comment. You have to edit your comment class to switch the exclamation mark to the normal class icon (or morph icon, exception icon, etc. which that represent your class).

For the difference between "Add Class" and "Add full Class", apparently it seems to be a bug, because the behavior of the two options is the same (simply add a new class yo your package). Moreover "add Full Class" is not in the contextual menu on Pharo 4.

Baptiste QUIDÉ

Étudiant ingénieur

Polytech Lille
Département Informatique et Statistique
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2014-07-09 17:47 GMT+02:00 Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]>:

Guys - it's been a while since I've used Pharo, and in 3.0 its come along
with leaps and bounds.

But I'm struggling to know what many things mean, and what the UI is telling
me? Is it written up somewhere?

I also quite quickly seemed to get into troubles with the new Nautilus
browser where it gives me walkbacks and won't let me select things. I've
started again with a new image and am trying again to do some simple things
- and see if I can come up with the use cases.

As a starting point - I've just created a new class, with a new Category
name and the class has a red exclamation mark next to it. What does that
mean?

Also what is the difference between Add Class, and Add full Class in the
context menu? I ended up just typing over the definition of an existing
class as there is no flyover help for either of these to know what it does?

Tim

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Marcus Denker-4

Re: Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

On 09 Jul 2014, at 18:07, Baptiste Quidé <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the exclamation mark means that your class has no class comment. You have to edit your comment class to switch the exclamation mark to the normal class icon (or morph icon, exception icon, etc. which that represent your class).
> For the difference between "Add Class" and "Add full Class", apparently it seems to be a bug, because the behavior of the two options is the same (simply add a new class yo your package). Moreover "add Full Class" is not in the contextual menu on Pharo 4.
>

I think the original idea was to show a template with trait and poolDictionary… which might be good to have. But I am not sure… so in Pharo4 I for now removed that duplication.
We should back port that.

Marcus

Tim Mackinnon

Re: Red Exclamation in Nautilus?

Thank you everyone - I shall continue to explore.

In fact my idea was to create a Help book to document some of this stuff. As the first place I looked was in World | Help - which told me a about all kinds of other things, but not some of the basics.

It seemed like it would be easy to add a CustomHelp subclass with a few pages documenting some of this stuff. And I would add a page each time I asked you guys a question or discovered something new.

Tim