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Playground and its current usability in Pharo4.0 Latest update: #40307
by Torsten Bergmann April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015

While I like that GTTools are in Pharo 4 now (thanks!!!) and allow all kind of neat things I basically ask myself if we forgot to remember usability on a few places: 1. the world menu item "Workspace" opens a window "Playground" including also a tab with the same name "Playground". => CONFUSING I would suggest that we rename the window "Workspace" and keep "Playground" for the initial tab. This is easy to fix and would also fulfill the expectation when a beginner grabbed an existing Smalltalk or Pharo book. 2. While in all UI interfaces (Windows, Linux, Mac) the order in the context menu is "Cut", "Copy", "Paste" the playground menu uses a different order "Copy", "Cut" "Paste". => CONFUSING again I would suggest to use the well known order "Cut","Copy","Paste". 3. When one uses "Inspect it" from the context menu it means - to run the code - and the resulting object is then "inspectable" in a new window On the other side "Do it and go" from the context menu means - to run the code - and the resulting object is then "inspectable" in a new pane (but same window) The intention of both menu items and also the result is the same, but the naming is different ("go" vs. "inspect"). But the only notable difference is that in one case the inspectable object is opening right to the existing pane in the other case a new window is opened. => CONFUSING and inconsistent This is harder to solve. Possible solutions are: 3a. We keep the "inspect" concept and name the menu items "Do and Inspect it" and "Inspect in new window" 3b. We keep "Do it" as before to run the code, also "Inspect it" which opens the new pane to the left in the same window. If someone wants to open a new inspector window he should keep SHIFT key pressed while running "Inspect it". This is a concept known from web browsers and other tools today, clicking on a link while pressing SHIFT opens a new window. 4. The icons in the context menu of Playground are not the same as the ones in the Pharo browsers. => CONFUSING and inconsistent They are just black and if one switches to the Pharo dark theme they stay black and therefore looking ugly and make nearly no sense on the dark grey menu background. For now we should use the known icons that we already have. Maybe currently they are hardcoded and may conflict with Moose vs. Pharo icons - but this could be solved with the Icon Theming. (In the long term I would like to see scalable icons in Pharo menues (instead of bitmaps) similar to "Fontawesome" in web browsers (two colors) or SVG based ones (more colors) as currently the icon does not scale when changing the menue font size). Sorry if it sound like a rant - but the intention of this mail is that we discuss (and hopefully fix) in order to improve. Maybe it is written too early after the initial integration, but I think the mentioned points should be easy to address. Unfortunately I'm additionally confused with the changed contribution process that has exceptions for specific packages like GT to fix it myself with the usualy bugs/slice cycle. Thanks T.

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Ugly textrendering (vertical label)
by Nicolai Hess April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015

Someone knows, why the text on the completion morph is so ugly? For example, this text Morph ne will open a completion window for "Morph class". This name is a vertical label on the left. The text looks ugly when we are using a FT font. Can we do anything to make this look better ? I know that (smooth) text rendering is difficult for arbitrary rotated forms, but this rotation around n*90 degree works with StrikeFont. nicolai

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[Pharo-project] RTF reader/writer
by StÃ©phane Ducasse April 8, 2015

April 8, 2015

Hi guys Do you know if there is a library somewhere in Smalltalk to deal with RTF writing/saving? Stef

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Duration year
by Hilaire March 26, 2015

March 26, 2015

I saw some discussion about Duration and year calculus in the list Given that it is impossible to determine the number of days in a year without the calendar years, should not 365.25 be used in place of 365 to minimize the error ? So it could look like: Duration class >> years: aNumber ^ self days: (aNumber * 365.25) truncated seconds: 0 Hilaire -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu

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GLMBrick whats next?
by Nicolai Hess March 25, 2015

March 25, 2015

I took a look at GLMBrick and I am wondering what is the intent: - a temporary solution until this functions/behavior are included in Morphic - a layer on top of morphic without the intent to do this in Morphic any time. - a temporary solution until this functions/behaviors are implemented with bloc nicolai

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[ANN] RProjectConnector V1.0
by Blondeau Vincent March 17, 2015

March 17, 2015

Hello everyone, I am glad to announce the first version of the RProjectConnector, a binding between Pharo and R using NativeBoost. You can now call directly your R methods from Pharo: data := (1 to: 1000) collect: #yourself. res := (#acf asRFunctionWith: {data}) eval To use it, you should copy the R libraries near the Pharo VM (see the documentation on SmalltalkHub to see how to proceed) and Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'VincentBlondeau' project: 'RProjectConnector'; configuration; loadStable Don't forget to relaunch Pharo after the installation to be able to use the connector. The sources are available on Smalltalkhub: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~VincentBlondeau/RProjectConnector if you want to participate, just ask me! Cheers, Vincent BLONDEAU ________________________________ Ce message et les pi?ces jointes sont confidentiels et r?serv?s ? l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut ?galement ?tre prot?g? par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. L'int?grit? du message ne pouvant ?tre assur?e sur Internet, la responsabilit? de Worldline ne pourra ?tre recherch?e quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'exp?diteur ne donne aucune garantie ? cet ?gard et sa responsabilit? ne saurait ?tre recherch?e pour tout dommage r?sultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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Super fast delay
by Norbert Hartl March 10, 2015

March 10, 2015

I just recognized that Delay is working in a strange way on my linux box $ time pharo-vm-nox ./Pharo.image eval "(Delay forSeconds: 5) wait" a Delay(5000 msecs) real 0m0.158s user 0m0.136s sys 0m0.020s I use the vm from the ppa. What do you get when you execute it? Norbert

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Keyboard Event Weirdness
by Sean P. DeNigris March 2, 2015

March 2, 2015

I put the following halt in HandMorph>>#handleEvent: anEvent isKeyboard ifTrue: [Transcript show: anEvent printString, ' keyChar: ', anEvent keyCharacter asString, ' keyValue: ', anEvent keyValue asString; cr]. Then I typed 'hi' in a Workspace and hit Cmd+a. Look at the weird Transcript output... [keyDown ''] keyChar: keyValue: 4 [keystroke 'h'] keyChar: h keyValue: 104 [keyUp ''] keyChar: keyValue: 4 [keyDown ''] keyChar: keyValue: 34 [keystroke 'i'] keyChar: i keyValue: 105 [keyUp ''] keyChar: keyValue: 34 [keyDown '<Cmd->'] keyChar: keyValue: 0 [keystroke '<Cmd-a>'] keyChar: a keyValue: 97 [keyUp '<Cmd->'] keyChar: keyValue: 0 It seems the keyUp/Downs do not have the correct charCode and the keyValue is different than the keystroke for the same key. What's going on here? ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Keyboard-Event-Weirdness-tp4737056.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Spec MenuModel not working
by Peter UhnÃ¡k Jan. 30, 2015

Jan. 30, 2015

Hi, I've encountered a problem with submenus in Spec's MenuModel. When opening a submenu it throws MNU MenuMorph>>activatedFromDockingBar:. It can be reproduced by opening "ApplicationWithToolbar new openWithSpec" and clicking on "File". I'm not familiar with the internals of Morphic so I do not know what the issue is. Also there seems to be some TxApplicationWithToolbar; is TX something I should be aware of? E.g. something that is going to replace Spec or something? Thanks, Peter

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[Ann] a short Bloc demo
by Alain Plantec Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

Hello all, Iâve just uploaded a small demo of Bloc. http://vimeo.com/115336678 <http://vimeo.com/115336678> Cheers Alain

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