Hi,

On Feb 22, 2017, at 5:47 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:

I happened to be Spotting for image saveXXX methods and at the top of results is #Menu + Save + Save as... + Save and quit

Now what would be really nice is if the code pane showed the implementation of the menu item. Usually I resort to using Halos to inspect the menu item morph to view its implementation.

On a slightly separate point, it feels awkward clicking Save in the Spotter search, since there is no visual feedback anything happened. I had to go back and experiment by choosing [Save as] to understand that clicking it actually executed it.

Perhaps executing a menu item from Spotter could #inform: us that a menu item was executed. This is in spite that choosing [Save] from the World menu doesn't provide any feedback. I think that conforms to expected behaviour, but most other Spotter results only browse, not execute.

This is an interesting idea. Could you open an issue for it?

Actually how many other Spotter extensions execute something? It is maybe potentially dangerous that it behaves differently to other results, and clicking on it (e.g. trying to expand it like other results) causes side effects.

Clicking triggers an action. What the action does is not controlled and nor should it. Cheers, Doru

Perhaps the code pane showing the menu item implementation could have <Execute> and <Debug> buttons above it.

cheers -ben

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