Posted by Chris Uppal-3 on Oct 31, 2005; 9:35am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Consistency-tp3376031p3376068.html

Andy,

> There were originally two reasons why we changed over to using the
> radio buttons. One was a cosmetic issue where we wanted to have the
> switch at the bottom of the methods pane (rather than the top)

Incidentally, why at the bottom ?  I'm not asking you to change it (which I can
do myself anyway if I think it's worthwhile), but I'm having /real/ difficulty
reprogramming myself to look/click in the right place.


> The second reason was that using a tab didn't seem quite right. In
> general I regards the tab cards as being different views onto the same
> object. It's a bit of a fine line but I tend to regards the instance
> and class side methods as being similar views onto two different class
> objects.

A fine technical point.

FWIW, I prefered the tabs myself (in /programming/ terms I see the two class
objects as being conjoined twins).  But logically the tab (or whatever) should
then extend across (should be the "master" of) both the variables pane and the
method list.  Which would use quite a lot of screen space to gain not very
much...

    -- chris