April 2012 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

[Pharo-project] MethodWrappers
by Torsten Bergmann April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi Eliot, at [1] you mentioned a port of MethodWrappers to Squeak 4.2. Is there also a port for Pharo available or do you plan to port it? For those who dont know about MethodWrappers: look at [2] Thanks Torsten [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-September/16156… [2] http://www.refactory.com/Software/MethodWrappers/ -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurÃ¼ck-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone

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[Pharo-project] How to globals that are NOT classes or traits?
by Mariano Martinez Peck April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi guys. In Fuel, we need to identity which globals present in Smalltalk globals are NOT classes or traits, because we need to manage them as globals. So far we have a hardcoded list: defaultGlobalSymbols ^ #(#Smalltalk #SourceFiles #Transcript #Undeclared #Display #TextConstants #ActiveWorld #ActiveHand #ActiveEvent #Sensor #Processor #ImageImports #SystemOrganization #World) So...as every hardcoded stuff, this is not nice because as soon as globals change, we need to fix this. So it would be nice if the system (pharo) can provide us this information. What do you think? -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] InnoSetup was: RE: One-click Windows comment
by Schwab,Wilhelm K April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

InnoSetup is very non-intrusive and flexible. The resulting installers have options for silent and very silent installation, so yes, you probably can do what you want with them. Of course, Inno and resulting setups don't do anything (or not much anyway) that can't be done from any software, but it does a nice job of putting files in known locations, updating always, only if newer, running software, etc. As an aside, it's interesting to see the term "ActiveX" *still* being used. This was something that MS was trying to kill a LONG time ago. I'm increasingly glad that I started tuning them out and focusing on the simple and reliable vs. getting wound up in every new "technology" they tried to jam down my throat. I'm much happier on Linux. But I digress. One can use Smalltalk to generate inno scripts (for a good while, I used inno to repackage MS' monthly patch madness (you had to be there...). I had code that abstracted adding files to be copied, executed, etc., or at least something like that - haven't looked at it for a few years now. With the resulting script, run the inno compiler over it, and a nicely behaved installer emerges. It was preferable to what MS was doing at the time for various reasons. And of course, one can simply write a script using Inno's or another IDE, or just a plain text editor. I took that route for installing my Dolphin-deployed executables. The script generally did a "copy if newer" type of installation, which worked well. With every update, would compile the inno scripts and send the installers on their way. The various target machines could then be told to look for and install the updates. After some nail-biting, the machines generally would re-appear on the "grid." Every so often I'd have to unstick a box, but that was rare. The real fear was hardware failures, which was the most common reason that a machine failed to return to service. Didn't happen often, but it was bad when it did. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Igor Stasenko [siguctua(a)gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:43 AM To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] One-click Windows comment On 21 April 2012 10:48, phil(a)highoctane.be <phil(a)highoctane.be> wrote: > Inno Setup would be a good thing to use for creating a Windows installer. > > http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php > > I use it regularly. Interested in a sample? > Since we're using automated builds, it is important that install packaging tools can run from command line and don't require any user interaction(s) in order to create an output. is inno installer allows to do that? > Phil > > > 2012/4/21 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> >> >> >> On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Herby VojÄÃk wrote: >> >> > The ideal way would probably that .bat (or .cmd or .vbs) creates the >> > .lnk by some ActiveX magic, runs it and quits; subseuqntly .lnk could be >> > clicked directly. >> > >> We are planning of having installers for the three platforms... so we can >> make them more in the style that people expect. >> >> But this will be done step by step and slowly (like everything :-) >> >> For the meantime, I added a catch-all tracker for ideas how to improve the >> one-click: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5643 >> >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de >> >> > > > > -- > Philippe Back > "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" > > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: phil(a)highoctane.be | > Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: > http://philippeback.be > > High Octane SPRL > rue cour Boisacq 101 > 1301 Bierges > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.

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[Pharo-project] A last 1.3 update? (startup related)
by Marcus Denker April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi, There is a last improvement for 1.3 from Netstyle/cmsbox: Issue 4617: More error tolerant startup http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4617 Should we integrate that? Else, the idea is to retire 1.3 from the build server eventually (as there will not that many changes that an integration server setup is needed). Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] [Ann] Cuis 4.0 is released!
by juanlists＠jvuletich.org April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi Folks, Cuis 4.0 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now. The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project himself, all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving force behind most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add that I'm delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project, and that I'm more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having on Cuis itself. Check http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html . So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required support for External Packages. This is a very lightweight implementation of Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on Monticello. Versioning is done with GitHub. Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html and http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html . Full list of features (from the release notes): ----------------------------------------------------- - Package Support. Cuis 4.0 has a package implementation based on PackageInfo. Can be used with a Git repository (like GitHub) for package versioning. More info at "CodeManagementInCuis4" and "CuisAndGitHub". This infrastructure and process is used for the StyledTextEditor project, developed by Bernhard Pieber and Software Generation. - New handling of ChangeSets. The idea is to have only one "live" change set that automatically captures all changes done to the Cuis Core image. Changes to Packages go to separate ChangeSets. - UCompletion. A new implementation of Autocompletion for Smalltalk code. Activates with ctrl-space. Usually gives the selector desired as the first option. Some features are: = Sorts by last definition of selector (Methods recently saved go first), = Sorts appropriately all selectors matching entered prefix (no hardcoded limits, like 40 selectors matching 2 letters). = Restricts suggestions if receiver is Global, a Constant or a pseudo-variable. = Doesn't have an "expanded mode". Always shows relevant suggestions. = Not restricted to a set of previously selected packages. All the methods in the system are accounted for. = Very fast, thanks to an optimized Trie implementation. = Compact code. Relies on services by Trie (for storing and querying selectors) and Shout (for parsing incomplete methods). = Helps make Shout faster, by providing super fast queries of selector prefixes. = Can be used for other applications besides Smalltalk code. Currently used for an English glossary for StyledTextEditor. - Trie. Cuis 4.- includes a very optimized implementation of a Trie. Tries are dictionaries where keys are Strings. Lookups are extremely fast. Search for entries matching a prefix are extremely fast (O(1) regardless of the size of the collection). Addition and removals are quite fast too. Used for UCompletion, holding 11,000 selectors. Also used for an English spell checker (in the StyledTextEditor project) holding 166,000 words. In both cases use of memory is quite reasonable (3 and 5.4 bytes per character in average) and query speed is extremely fast. - Multiple level undo / redo in all text and code editors. - ClickNHalf+Drag to select words. TripleClick or DoubleClickNHalf+Drag to select paragraphs. Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors do. - Multiple text selection (with control+mouse). Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors do. - Lf. The newline character is no longer Character cr (ASCII code 13), but Character lf (ASCII code 10). This is the standard in Mac and Unix platforms, and the required convention for GitHub. All the code in the image has been converted. - cmd-w closes window below mouse pointer. cmd-< y cmd-> cycle through windows. - New "PostIt" like HoverHelp morphs. - Simplification / Redesign: Scrolling in Morphic (TransformMorph gone, etc). - Deep cleanup in Paragraph and paragraph display services in Canvas and DisplayScanner (now MorphicScanner). - MouseClickState refactor, to ease new gestures (ClickNHalf+Drag, DoubleClickNHalf+Drag, TripleClick). - Killed AbstractEvent hierarchy. Unified event subscribing, triggering and handling everywhere in Cuis. - More TextMorph cleanup. - Numeric enhancements done by nice and jmv, both on Squeak and Cuis. - Many minor enhancements, cleanups and bugfixes. - Updates to Squeak: Numerics, Network, and many others. I hope you enjoy this release of Cuis as much as Bernhard and I enjoyed working on it. As usual, comments, discussion, bug reports, kudos and donations are all welcome! Cheers, Juan Vuletich

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[Pharo-project] Problem with implementors of
by StÃ©phane Ducasse April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi ben I do not really understand but when I edit a method in the implementor code pane after the cancel accept discard dialog does not work and I cannot do anything. Stef

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[Pharo-project] Notification of inst var added
by Sean P. DeNigris April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

I was thinking that the SystemChangeNotifier would trigger a class modified event when an instance variable is added, but I only got a method modified event when I referenced an unknown name in a method and selected 'declare instance' from the pop-up. How would I know when an instance variable is added? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Notification-of-inst-var-added-tp4576616p4576616.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Pharo-project] Notification of inst var added
by Marcus Denker April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

On Apr 21, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > > Sean P. DeNigris wrote >> >> I was thinking that the SystemChangeNotifier... >> > > Nevermind... I just noticed the new Announcements in 1.4. Very cool! > Yes, in 2.0 we plan to remove SystemChangeNotifier.... -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Pharon 1.4 - Ubuntu desktop Laucher.
by Mariano Vicente April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

Hi Everybody. I downloaded the last version and make a simply desktop launcher for Ubuntu (I'm runing 11.10), and i like to share it. [Desktop Entry] Version=1.4 Type=Application Name=Pharo 1.4 Exec="<your path to the sh>" ex: "/opt/Pharo-1.4-one-click/ Pharo-1.4-one-click.sh" %f Icon=/opt/Pharo-1.4-one-click/Contents/Resources/Pharo.png Comment=Develop Smaltalk with pleasure! Categories=Development;IDE; Terminal=false StartupNotify=true This file must be save in */usr/share/applications* as *.desktop* extension I've attached the file as example. Regards, Mariano

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Re: [Pharo-project] Nautilus
by Marcus Denker April 21, 2012

April 21, 2012

On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > What i would love to learn/read more about was RPackage and Ring (perhaps on > a blogpost on http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ ;). > About Ring there is this paper: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/papers/Uqui11a-RingJournalPaper-CSSJour… Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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