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

Re: [Pharo-project] A last 1.3 update? (startup related)

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

why not :) but we should also integrate that in 1.4? Stef On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > 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 > >

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] A last 1.3 update? (startup related)

by Sean P. DeNigris

Marcus Denker-4 wrote > > Issue 4617: More error tolerant startup > Sounds awesome! I lost many images due to broken startup scripts. In fact, that's what "inspired" me to hack the VM ;-) I know several others have had similar issues breaking images... I have no opinion whether to include in 1.3 or 1.4, but it's great that a solution has been found :) -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/A-last-1-3-update-startup-related-tp4576887p4576977.h… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Styled Text Editor for Cuis 4.0 Smalltalk

by phil＠highoctane.be

Great news! I am currently busy looking after Text, TextAttributes, TextConstants, Paragraph... and god, it went through the grinder and it shows. I understand the reasons that led to such things but Collections-Text is in need of improvement for sure. How much funding would be necessary to get this port done? Phil 2012/4/21 Bernhard Pieber <bernhard(a)pieber.com> > Dear Smalltalkers, > > I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new > Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub [1]. The Styled Text Editor was first > presented by me at last year's ESUG in Edinburgh [2]. Thanks to ESUG the > presentation was recorded [3]. > > The Styled Text Editor is a framework for rich text editing using styles > as known from popular word processors like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. > It features paragraph and character styles, allowing easy text formatting > using styles only. It is intended for applications where users need to work > with good looking rich text in a simple and fast way. > > Rich text commonly refers to text with formatting information like > different fonts, sizes, alignments, and emphasis. To make editing as simple > as possible instead of individual formatting information end users apply > styles to parts of the text. Editing is made fast by keyboard shortcuts for > text navigation, selection, and styles selection. Where possible the feel > of widely used rich text editors is supported. > > It includes many features like > - numbered and bulleted list paragraph styles > - support for images > - multiple level undo and redo > - text completion using various glossaries including a dictionary of > English with about 166.000 words > - RTF clipboard (on OS X VMs with the ClipboardExtendedPlugin) > > The Styled Text Editor is developed in Cuis with the plan to eventually > port it to Squeak and Pharo. The development of the Styled Text Editor > inspired many changes to Cuis itself, and It is the first package to use > the brand new DVCS based development process for external packages for Cuis > 4.0. > > The idea and funding was provided by me, Bernhard Pieber and my company > Software Generation. The implementation was done by Juan Vuletich, the > mastermind behind Cuis. Thanks Juan for the close cooperation. It was and > still is great fun to work with you. > > We are looking forward to feedback from you. Fork it on GitHub [1], create > issues and send us pull requests. ;-) > > Cheers, > Bernhard Pieber > > [1] https://github.com/bpieber/Cuis-StyledTextEditor > [2] > http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talks/StyledTex… > [3] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&index=7&… > -- 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

April 21, 2012

[Pharo-project] A last 1.3 update? (startup related)

by Marcus Denker

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

April 21, 2012

[Pharo-project] [ANN] Styled Text Editor for Cuis 4.0 Smalltalk

by Bernhard Pieber

Dear Smalltalkers, I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub [1]. The Styled Text Editor was first presented by me at last year's ESUG in Edinburgh [2]. Thanks to ESUG the presentation was recorded [3]. The Styled Text Editor is a framework for rich text editing using styles as known from popular word processors like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. It features paragraph and character styles, allowing easy text formatting using styles only. It is intended for applications where users need to work with good looking rich text in a simple and fast way. Rich text commonly refers to text with formatting information like different fonts, sizes, alignments, and emphasis. To make editing as simple as possible instead of individual formatting information end users apply styles to parts of the text. Editing is made fast by keyboard shortcuts for text navigation, selection, and styles selection. Where possible the feel of widely used rich text editors is supported. It includes many features like - numbered and bulleted list paragraph styles - support for images - multiple level undo and redo - text completion using various glossaries including a dictionary of English with about 166.000 words - RTF clipboard (on OS X VMs with the ClipboardExtendedPlugin) The Styled Text Editor is developed in Cuis with the plan to eventually port it to Squeak and Pharo. The development of the Styled Text Editor inspired many changes to Cuis itself, and It is the first package to use the brand new DVCS based development process for external packages for Cuis 4.0. The idea and funding was provided by me, Bernhard Pieber and my company Software Generation. The implementation was done by Juan Vuletich, the mastermind behind Cuis. Thanks Juan for the close cooperation. It was and still is great fun to work with you. We are looking forward to feedback from you. Fork it on GitHub [1], create issues and send us pull requests. ;-) Cheers, Bernhard Pieber [1] https://github.com/bpieber/Cuis-StyledTextEditor [2] http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talks/StyledTex… [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&index=7&…

April 21, 2012

[Pharo-project] [Ann] Cuis 4.0 is released!

by juanlists＠jvuletich.org

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

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo 1.4 Released

by Sean P. DeNigris

What a tremendous list of accomplishments!! I'm blown away every time I read it... Are there more detailed descriptions of these bullets? Specifically I'm interested in: Marcus Denker-4 wrote > > - Better primitive simulation > - Better headless support > - Better support for error at startup > - Search in tools > - Better search > -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-1-4-Released-tp4570369p4576837.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] InnoSetup was: RE: One-click Windows comment

by Schwab,Wilhelm K

Power to the Penguin! :) I will admit that one sore spot is the Gnome dust up. Shoot me, I really like Gnome 2.x, or have at least grown comfortable with it. KDE is a bit overdone for my tastes, so I'm probably going to land on Xubuntu. Overall, these are small annoyances compared to all the "fun" I left behind as I departed Windows. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of garduino [garduino(a)gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:15 AM To: pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] InnoSetup was: RE: One-click Windows comment Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote > > 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. > Could not agree more with you! I can't understand how / why so many people/companies are using MS products, when the company proved lot of times that really don't care about its users and customers. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/InnoSetup-was-RE-One-click-Windows-comment-tp4576268p… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Late binding class names

by Pavel Krivanek

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean(a)clipperadams.com> wrote: > > Pavel Krivanek-3 wrote >> >> you may look at WADynamicVariable from Seaside how >> to process such context specific globals. >> > > Thanks for the pointer... I checked it out, but Seaside is actually not > doing anything with the binding there. > > Sean > It does nothing with class bindings directly but it is maybe the cleanest way how to solve this kind of problem. However if you really need to switch classes, you may try to sent becameForward: during context switching in ProcessorSheduller. -- Pavel

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Unresponsive 1.4 image

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

I guess that we have a showstopper for 1.4 :) Because when I take 1.4 and modify a method in the implementor pane I can also freeze the systemâ¦. I will repeat it to be sure. Stef On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:01 AM, phil(a)highoctane.be wrote: > To freeze 1.4 on Win XP SP3, you can try this one out: > > | tm border | > tm := TextMorph new. > tm contentsWrapped: ''; > extent: 100 @ 20. > "this is the important stuff" > (border := AlignmentMorph newRow) position: 200 @ 200; > borderWidth: 1; > borderColor: Color black; > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > vResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: tm. > "this just makes the TextMorph easier =to see" > World addMorph: border. > > Then fill in the TextMorph with some text and newlines. > > Then call the halos and resize the right corner for a while, especially letting it go out of screen at the bottom. > > The system will come unresponsive, not obey Cmd-. etc. > > Sometimes it comes back to life but most of the time I've got to kill the process. > > CogVM or StackVM make no difference. > > Maybe there is a huge GC going on but there is no memory display thing (manuia) anymore in 1.4 so I can't tell. > > Hope it helps. > > Phil > > > > 2012/4/20 Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic(a)gmail.com> > > Janko MivÅ¡ek wrote > > > > > > After Ctrl-C in command prompt there is no new PharoDebug.log. > > > > > > > > Instead of Crtl-C do you get anything if you find the process and kill it > with: > > kill -s SIGUSR1 <pid> > > ? > (assuming you're using Cog ) > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Unresponsive-1-4-image-tp4574693p4575089.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > -- > 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 >

April 21, 2012