The frustration that I have with the bubble is the saem that I have in
front of pdf in readonly or a file open that you cannot grab and find on
your local disc.
I found the blue rectangle morph painful because it blocks me when
I want to freely edit expression and result.
Would it be possible that when I type enter the blue rectangle
text is paste in the pane below its expression.
We are debating this feature since quite a while and we indeed need to
settle on a solution. Esteban also wanted Enter, and I was more
inclined towards Cmd+v.
I opened an issue:
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14711/The-Playground-print-popper-should-allow-for-inserting-the-text-in-the-editor
why not return?
Right now I have to copy and paste explictly and it not working. I
hate so much this broken interaction....
Indeed. The main use case considered for the popper (that is the name
of the widget) is to not get the original editor dirty. The current
way to do things is like this:
- Cmd+c
- Esc
- Right Arrow
- Cmd+v
Clearly not ideal.
Example
(20@200) printString get blue rectangle
press copy parentheses got hilighlited no idea why
There are two things here, and this is confusing right now in the
Pharo theme: The background of the popper has the same background as
the text selection:
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14712/The-print-popper-should-have-a-different-color-than-the-selection-in-the-default-Pharo-theme
The reason you see the parantheses selected is due to the smart
parantheses mechanism that I did not know how to suppress only for one
text widget :(.
No there is a also the automatic selection and the fact that enter
delete the selection.
And undo does not work well.
then I press enter to go to the next line (my selection vanished
of course because the magic things selected everything automatically)
The selection is the same as in the previous interface. For example,
in a basic Workspace, press Cmd+i without selecting anything and the
whole like will be selected. We cannot just erase the selection when
we exit the popper because sometimes you actually have an explicit
selection that you should not lose. But, coming to think about it, we
should probably use the highlighting mechanism for the text instead of
the selection one. I will look into this.
I do not get it.
But I can tell that the current solution does not work.
and I can paste the result and start to edit it.
I sincerly hope that GT guys will understand and modify it because
right now this is a show stopper to me.
It breaks so badly interaction with texts.
We will fix this, but in the meantime, could you tell me the use case
for which you need to paste the text in the same editor? I am asking
because I would like to learn as I never need to do it. This is why
the interface does not support that action so I need to learn the use
case :).
Soemtimes I want to compare two expressions.
Something two times the same or not
Something I want to show the results of multiple expressions to students
I WANT FREE TEXT!!!
I hate a system that tries and fails to look smart
Stef
Cheers,
Doru
Stef
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