Never mind about the popup as I can configure that on my own. Now, it is modeled after OSX spotlight which happens to be in the top right of the screen, but no other reason. Windows 8 gives us a search panel showing on the side. In Eclipse, it shows as a popup http://www.eclipseonetips.com/2011/02/21/the-easiest-ways-to-navigate-method... But really the width of the list is the key pain with the current spotlight for me. Phil On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Benjamin < Benjamin.VanRyseghem.Pharo@gmail.com> wrote:
we can give a try, but I try to reduce the number of popups as much as I can since it only confuses the user for often very few benefits
Ben
On 17 Nov 2013, at 18:14, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
Some things about old/new spotlight
- the width of the completions rectangle should be configurable as I often find myself looking at messages that are too long and get cut at the end, while what matters is what is at the end. I looked at the code and found that changing the size of the spotlight morph to be easy, but not so for the completion list which seems to be buried down somewhere in ECCompletion.
- there is no way to find numerical functions like sin exp... which is a pain. I guess that's due to the 3 letters required before a search.
Now, about the location, why do we need that on the top right? I'd love to have the morph open in the middle of the screen, where I am looking anyway, and not on the top right. A bit like how Launchy works. http://www.launchy.net/
Phil
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com>wrote:
On 2013-11-17, at 13:24, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com> wrote:
You need first this magic invocation
GlobalMenuBar current openInWorld; beSticky.
Then it will be in the top right corner. Note: there is s far no hotkey to get the focus. Note2: it is probably buggy since it has not been updated to the new Spec3 I can confirm the last part, though looks like the way to go!