[kepler-dev] Bring to Front vs Move to first menu choice

[Christopher Brooks]

Yep, we are back to case-sensitive in the port dialog.

Cool book suggestions!
_Christopher

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    I just realized that Christopher had already given the perfect example
    of why mixing a case-sensitive subsystem with a case-insensitive "user
    view" is a bad idea (the MS Windows file system). You get really
    bizarre behavior (which I tried to illustrate using the "false choice
    box" below: choose between 'FOO' and 'FOO' .. yes, thank you very much ;-)
    
    But luckily the case got resolved and all is well now, right? 
    I mean we're back to case-sensitive!? 
    A more user-friendly case-insensitivity WHILE SEARCHING for the right
    term/variable/actor whatever is desirable. Then the system lets the
    user choose between multiple case-sensitive options. Did I get that
    right? 
    
    
    Oh, and with the holidays really upon us, I couldn't help but also
    through in some little RECOMMENDED READING OVER THE HOLIDAYS.
    Something to warm the heart and soul while sitting around the
    fireplace in a cold winter night, under the christmas tree or whatever
    you do in those days. You could call it "zooming out" (to the big
    picture).  Here it comes:
    
    (1) On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary
    transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes,
    and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells; by William Martin and
    Michael J. Russell, DOI 10.1098/rstb.2002.1183 
    (should be available online)(and now, I won't mention Bertrand Russel's wri
   tings in this contex
    
    
    Maybe since we're all so closely related (even to bacteria), we
    shouldn't always divorce "computer scientists" from "domain scientist
    users" (the supposedly CS-challenged ones) so strictly (referring to
    an earlier emaiapparentlyl in this thread). Let taxonomists do those separa
   tions
    and let's rejoice in the great unity of being!  :-)
    
    (2) Zooming out further, to the REALLY BIG PICTURE:
    "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of the Cosmos", both by Brian
    Greene make for really good reading too IMHO. It's pretty amazing how
    he goes from chicken and egg to Big Bang in no time at all. 
    Ptolemy enthusiast will also find many reminiscences to 'wormholes',
    cybernetics and other "systems stuff".
    
    (3) A little lighter reading than (1) and (2) is "A short history of
    nearly everything" (I think by Bill Bryson) and finally for the
    bio-fans
    
    (4) "The Song of the Dodo" (forgot the author's name)
    
    Just in case you're looking for last minute presents :-)
    
    cheers
    
    Bertram
    
    > ------- Additional Comments From cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2005-12-18 23:43 
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    > I'm not totally sure that having the type in the combobox be case insensi
   tive
    > is the correct behaviour.  For example, one of the lamest parts of Window
   s
    > is that the so-called file system is case insensitive, yet case preservin
   g.
    > This causes no end of trouble.  My concern here is that there is a slight
    chance
    > we could be preventing the use of user defined types because "STRING" and
    > "string" could mean two different types.  Anyway, I think this a very rem
   ote
    > possibility, and I myself have had a hard time remembering the capitaliza
   tion.
    >
    > Since we've had a combobox here, I've had a much easier time since the ch
   oice
    > is there.  Now that the editable portion of the combobox is case insensit
   ive
    > and auto correcting, this should be even easier to handle.
    
    
    >>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:06:46 -0800
    >>> Bertram Ludaescher <ludaesch at ucdavis.edu> wrote: 
    ... 
    BL>     "You just entered 'FOO'. The system has two functions with this
    BL>     name. Please choose between [ ] FOO and [ ] FOO" 
    ....
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