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From: MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET (Thomas Muhr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: ST V/286 a few questions...
Message-ID: <441@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 15 Nov 89 10:42:36 GMT
Reply-To: MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET (Thomas Muhr)
Organization: TU Berlin
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ST V/286 proves to be an 'adequate' (both from a system engineering and
a psychological standpoint) tool - but nontheless there are always some
problems where we need 'a little help from a friend':
1. Having modified DAGPane for use in our project, there is the problem
  that after invoking and then closing it from a previously opened application
  the latter won't do all the updates in it's various listpanes etc. no more.
  Something in the open-method of DAGPane disables these processes. What
  could the reason be ( a hard question without the sources - I believe)
  But maybe someone else has already stumbled over this problem.

2. ST is not always as robust as sometimes claimed: After trying to remove
   a DeletedClass in an ApplicationBrowser the system crashed with the
   (DOS ?) message: Exception 0D: General protection fault
                    Error code selector: 0000
   What happened?
3. Before reinventing the wheel and hoping that somebody gives his code
   for 'reusing' I would like to ask for:
   - an extension of TextEditor which handles word wrap inside the current
     window size.
   - an utility for better management of classes/methods (some findClasses meth
     od ?)
   - a method to get temporarily rid of ALL instances of TextPane to intro-
     duce new instance variables, better: a method to introduce instance
     variables without having to delete the whole database.

4.  Will there be a ST V/286 version in the near future which supports vir-
    tual memory after exhausting available RAM ?

5.  How can I give different colors to different subPanes?
6. Well, I will stop here for now.......
Thank you very much in advance  -

Thomas
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Thomas Muhr, Technical University of Berlin, BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11
   Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research
         "Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle
   for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)