Re: [Pharo-dev] Spotter idea - bring existing code windows to front

[Tudor Girba]

Nice one, Phil :)

Doru



> On Mar 4, 2017, at 7:32 PM, p...@highoctane.be wrote:
> 
> I made a little experiment to get the windows listed in spotter.
> 
> 
> 
> I have still an issue with the activation and some weird windows listed but 
> should be able to give you just that in a couple hours.
> 
> This is a good opportunity for me to jump into spotter extensions, thx for 
> the nudge  :-)
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Ben Coman  wrote:
> A quick note on an idea that strikes me, 
> I often find myself with a large number of windows open and I know I have a 
> code window open previously but the task bar is a bit opaque to find it,
> and its so cheap to open a new code window from Spotter, thats what I do, 
> and open yet another window, making it harder again to find any particular 
> window.
> You can see the downward spiral here.
> 
> So apart from more discipline is managing the number of windows I have open
> a passing idea is that for if an existing code window is open, Spotter brings 
> that to the front rather than opening another window.  Optionally, if that 
> code window is dirty, as well as bringing it to the front a fresh code window 
> be opened as well, so that the two are immediately comparable.
> 
> cheers -ben
> 

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Re: [Pharo-dev] Spotter idea - bring existing code windows to front

[Denis Kudriashov]

Hi Ben.

I think it is good strategy for general usage, not only spotter. If user
requests browser for item which already shown in existing window then this
window should be shown instead of opening new one

2017-03-04 16:19 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman :

> A quick note on an idea that strikes me,
> I often find myself with a large number of windows open and I know I have
> a code window open previously but the task bar is a bit opaque to find it,
> and its so cheap to open a new code window from Spotter, thats what I do,
> and open yet another window, making it harder again to find any particular
> window.
> You can see the downward spiral here.
>
> So apart from more discipline is managing the number of windows I have open
> a passing idea is that for if an existing code window is open, Spotter
> brings that to the front rather than opening another window.  Optionally,
> if that code window is dirty, as well as bringing it to the front a fresh
> code window be opened as well, so that the two are immediately comparable.
>
> cheers -ben
>

Re: [Pharo-dev] Spotter idea - bring existing code windows to front

[p...@highoctane.be]

I made a little experiment to get the windows listed in spotter.

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I have still an issue with the activation and some weird windows listed but
should be able to give you just that in a couple hours.

This is a good opportunity for me to jump into spotter extensions, thx for
the nudge  :-)

Phil

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Ben Coman  wrote:

> A quick note on an idea that strikes me,
> I often find myself with a large number of windows open and I know I have
> a code window open previously but the task bar is a bit opaque to find it,
> and its so cheap to open a new code window from Spotter, thats what I do,
> and open yet another window, making it harder again to find any particular
> window.
> You can see the downward spiral here.
>
> So apart from more discipline is managing the number of windows I have open
> a passing idea is that for if an existing code window is open, Spotter
> brings that to the front rather than opening another window.  Optionally,
> if that code window is dirty, as well as bringing it to the front a fresh
> code window be opened as well, so that the two are immediately comparable.
>
> cheers -ben
>