Agrees with Robert
> Den 3. mar. 2022 kl. 16.59 skrev Robert Briggs via Pharo-users > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>: > > > Hi Esteban > > Thankyou for responding. > > You say it’s a very bad way to show something is “dirty” yet Pharo continues > to use it in the System Browser and elsewhere. Also from my researching It > was used in Spec but has been deprecated in Spec2. > > I think It is also used in VisualWorks and earlier SmallTalk systems. > > Personally I find it very useful when editing code across a number of > different objects as it reminds me that I’ve not saved the edits (which has > caught me out when subsequently running a test for example. > > What is considered to be a better way to show that something is “dirty”, and > is anything planned for Spec2 in the future in this respect? > > Regards > R > From: Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu> > Reply to: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Date: Thursday, 3 March 2022 at 15:16 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Cc: Robert Briggs <rbriggs2...@me.com> > Subject: [Pharo-users] Re: The orange 'content modified' indicator > > Hi, > > No, this is not possible. > Main reason is because that little triangle is a very bad way to show > something is "dirty", but also because Spec itself does not has the concept > of "dirty". If you want such mechanism you need to implement it yourself (you > can listen when content changes and add/remove a style, for example). > > Esteban > > On Mar 3 2022, at 3:28 pm, Robert Briggs via Pharo-users > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Hi > > > > Pharo browser’s show a little triangular orange triangle in the top right > corner when code is edited by the user but not yet Accepted. > > > > Is there a mechanism for doing the same, e.g. in an editable SpTextPresenter? > > > > I’ve looked around related Spec2 Classes but unable to find a method to do > this. > > > > Advice please. > > > > Regards > > R > >
