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
