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

[Christopher Brooks]

Yah, I figure it that it would be a problem.

Firefox, IE and MS Word all have Control-O as File Open.

I see several options with minus and pluses:

1) Stick with Control-O as the shortcut for "Open Actor"
   - Annoy all users used to lots of Windows Apps
   + Convenient and Mnemonic
2) Go back to Control-L
   - Not Mnemonic, but makes a good trivia question
   + Does not break users used to lots of Windows Apps
   + Edward and I don't have to learn a new shortcut
3) Choose another key, such as Control-A
   -/+ Sort of Mnemonic
   - Conflicts with Select All

For now, I'll roll back to Control-L.
I think this might be why we stuck with Look Inside.

Comments?

_Christopher

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    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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