[kepler-dev] [Ptolemy] "Look Inside" changed to "Open Actor"

[Edward A. Lee]

Control-O is already bound to "Open File", so I think this change
will break that... Using Control-O for open file is pretty common
in Windows programs...

Edward

At 07:00 PM 12/12/2005 -0800, Christopher Brooks wrote:
>The Kepler group asked that "Look Inside" be changed to "Open Actor".
>[Personally, I was opting for "Open Sesame" ]
>
>http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2110
>
>I went ahead and made this change to
>   ptolemy/vergil/actor/ActorController.java
>I also modified the short cut so that Control-O now opens the
>actor instead of Control-L.  If there is great hue and cry, I suppose
>we could have both Control-O and Control-L but I don't see how to do
>this.
>
>ActorController has a protected variable named _lookInsideAction which
>I did not rename so as to preserve backward compatibility with
>subclasses of this class.
>
>I updated a few demos as well.
>
>These classes:
>   ptolemy/chic/ChicController.java
>   ptolemy/vergil/fsm/TransitionController.java
>   ptolemy/vergil/fsm/StateController.java
>all still have "Look Inside" because the "Look Inside" action looks
>inside a Chic node or a transition or a state, which are all not
>actors.  Thus "Open Actor" does not make much sense in for those
>classes.  If someone has a strong opinion, I could change them as
>well.
>
>Once the dust settles, I'll make a pass through the docs and fix up
>references to "Look Inside".
>
>_Christopher
>
>
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