Smalltalk/Squeak Basics - Menus
(Material provided by Rodney Walker at Georgia Tech)
Our first two pages in this had to deal with Squeak language basics and system browser basics. This one
concerns menu basics - not only what the different options are, but
how to get different menus to pop up.
Due to the number of images, I split this up into a couple of
pages. These are the browser menus
page and the file list menus
page.
The main menu is brought up by clicking anywhere in the
system window and looks like this:
The open menu is brough up by choosing 'open' from the main menu
above.
- Browser - Opens a system browser. Lets you inspect/edit code.
- Workspace - Squeak's "input" window.
- File List - Opens Squeak's link to system files.
- File - Allows you to select a file directly. File must be in same
directory as Squeak image file.
- Transcript - Squeak's "output" window.
- Selector Finder - Way to search for something (method, etc.) in system.
Very useful. (Hint: You can do something similar by typing a word or few
letters, selecting it, and typing command-shift-w on Mac or alt-shift-w on
PC)
- Simple Change Sorter - Opens a window which allows you to manage change
sets.
- Dual Change Sorter - Same as above, but allows you to transfer code
between change sets.
- Project (MVC) - Allows you to create an MVC project.
- project (Morphic) - Allows you to create a morphic project. If you use
projects, this is the one you'd probably do.
- Project (Construction) - Allows you to create a project for construction.