VA Assist Pro User Guide : VA Assist Pro User Guide : Chapter 3 Browsers Enhancements : Drag Drop
Drag Drop
A significant amount of time during any VA Smalltalk application development project is spent refactoring code, moving classes and methods between applications, recategorizing methods, changing methods from public to private and back, etc. All of these operations are time consuming and awkward using the standard VAST browsers. Many of these commands invoke multiple cascaded dialog boxes in order to figure out the intent of the developer. Drag/drop makes many of these operations much simpler and straightforward.
VA Assist Pro supports drag/drop operations between almost every list (and text) widget within the browsers – with useful copy and/or move semantics in each direction. The following table captures many of the various drag/drop operations available:
From\To
Method List
Class List
Category List
Application List
Prereq List
Config Map/ Required Maps List
Group List
Method List
Copy/ Move to Class
Copy/ Move to Class
**Add/ Change Categories
Move to Application
N/A
N/A
N/A
Category List
Add/ Change Categories
Add Category
Add Category
Add Category to all Classes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Class List
N/A
N/A
Add Category
Move to Application
N/A
N/A
Change Owner
Application List
N/A
Extend Class
Add Category to all Classes
Extend Class
Add Prereq
Add Application
Change Manager
Prereq List
N/A
Extend Class
Add Category to all Classes
Extend Class
Add Prereq
Add Application
Change Manager
Config Map/ Required Maps List
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Add Required Map
Change Manager
Group List
N/A
Change Owner
N/A
Add Group Members
N/A
Change Manager
Add Group Member
** Add/Change Categories in the same browser. Copy/Move method in a different browser.
Other combinations are also supported. For example, you can drag a method to the Public/Private button to change its status or drag it to the Class/Instance button to change it from being a class method to an instance method.
The drag drop button may be configured to be either the left, right or center mouse button via the (Options | Enhanced List Widget | Drag Drop Mouse Button) menu.
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The drag/drop feature can be turned on and off via the (Options | Drag Drop) command. If drag drop is turned on and the drag drop mouse button is set to the left mouse button, drag/drop will interfere with the ability to drag select multiple items in the various browser lists. This option allows the user to quickly toggle drag/drop on and off. If the drag drop mouse button is set to the right mouse button, there is no conflict and drag/drop may be left on permanently.
 
Last modified date: 05/19/2020