There's an interesting bug in the VW menu editor that crops up if you have Pollock loaded and want to add message catalog information to a menu item. Here's a screen shot of the tool I'm talking about:

There's a lookup key and catalog specified for that item, but they don't show (and, if you try to enter them, they don't stick. Again, this only happens if you have Pollock loaded. As it happens, there's a method added to class UserMessage that looks like this:

evaluate
	^self asString

That interferes with showing the catalog data. The fix? Simply comment out the code, which makes the method return self. In the next build of Pollock, this method will be going away - it turns out to be legacy code (ironic, given that Pollock is still in development).

I expect that most people won't run into this, but if you have Pollock loaded, you will.

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