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Let's talk about Themes
by kilon alios Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

So I had a brief discussion with a newcomer to Pharo at IRC #pharo. He basically wanted to change the background color of a window. Naturally I assumed that is easy enough to do , so I though that window color in Preferences -> Appearance -> Morphic would do that trick but alas it did not. I am using PharoDark Theme and I found out that windowColor is not used and instead backgroundColor does the trick. Then it hit me, it would be really nice if a theme manager existed to make it easy for people to modify a theme at a basic level. "Damn it where is my Theme manager ? " which of course leads to the answer "Why you dont make one yourself?". So I decided to make one myself. I am not a fan of the idea to do this inside System Preferences because they are already too convoluted . So I am considering doing this as a separate tool as part of my Ephestos project. It is one the goals of my project to offer easy to create custom GUIs and of course a Theme manager is a first basic step. Now a first plan I had is to just create a single theme, that subclasses Dark Theme that I call Morpheas Theme and use that theme as a basis for every subtheme. So a theme will no longer be a class but rather a dictionary entry to an instance variable inside Morpheas Theme. The manager will basically allow to modify this dictionary with each sub theme having each own entry to this dictionary. I will try avoid messing with the code of other projects inside Pharo, ideally totally, it seems already the Dark Theme class can accomplish all I need. This approach ensures that structure of the theme remains the same only the data changes , keeping it clean and simple, with no need for the user to dive inside the code as it happens currently. So I am posting here since you guys are more experienced on this for your own opinion and though since I will do this at my own pace, slowly and step by step. I would like to avoid the pitfalls of unexperienced Pharo coder like me and of course make it easy also for other people to contribute.

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[Update] #40363
by Marcus Denker Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

14429 DebuggerTests package should be Debugger-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14429 14431 FontInfrastructureTests package should be FontInfrastructure-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14431 14430 EmbeddedFreeTypeTests package should be EmbeddedFreeType-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14430

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[Update] #40362
by Marcus Denker Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

14425 FileList should not be used as Widget for opening Folders https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14425 14436 NautilusTests package should be Nautilus-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14436 14435 NECompletionTests package should be NECompletion-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14435

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14445 META case: Pharo4 should have green tests
by Marcus Denker Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

We have just 4 failing left to fix... ReleaseTest.testMethodsWithUnboundGlobals ReleaseTest.testUndeclared ObsoleteTest.testFixObsoleteSharedPools AJx64AssemblerTests.testStringOps64Mnemonics 14445 META case: Pharo4 should have green tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/search/?sSearchFor=outline%3A14445

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[Update] #40361
by Marcus Denker Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

14417 remove #theme from GraphicsFontSettings class https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14417 14260 Add gt inspector views to Ordered[Identity]Dictionary https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14260 14441 SmartSuggestionsTests package should be SmartSuggestions-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14441 14440 SlotTests package should be Slot-Tests https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14440

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StandardFileStream>>open:forWrite: serious isse...
by phil＠highoctane.be Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

Code (Transcript calls of mine) open: fileName forWrite: writeMode "Open the file with the given name. If writeMode is true, allow writing, otherwise open the file in read-only mode." | f | f := fileName asVmPathName. Transcript log: 'File:', f. fileID := StandardFileStream retryWithGC:[self primOpen: f writable: writeMode] until:[:id| id notNil] forFileNamed: fileName. fileID ifNil: [ ' > Cannot get fileID' logCr. ^ nil]. "allows sender to detect failure" (' > Got fileID: ', fileID printString) logCr. name := fileName. self register. rwmode := writeMode. buffer1 := String new: 1. self enableReadBuffering I have a ton of files to open. And some were slow to return a problem. After digging, I got to the method above. Now at one moment, I get nil fileIDs. What is that retryWithGC: until: thing??? retryWithGC: execBlock until: testBlock forFileNamed: fullName "Re-implemented to only force GC if a file with the given name exists" | blockValue foundIt | blockValue := execBlock value. (testBlock value: blockValue) ifTrue:[^blockValue]. "See if we have a file with the given name" foundIt := self registry keys "hold on strongly for now" anySatisfy:[:file| file name sameAs: fullName]. foundIt ifFalse:[^blockValue]. Smalltalk garbageCollectMost. blockValue := execBlock value. (testBlock value: blockValue) ifTrue:[^blockValue]. Smalltalk garbageCollect. ^execBlock value. Huhhhhh, yeah, some lookup going on in a registry... and GCs? For file opens? I am doing these opens in a webapp, what I want is to know if the file is there or not and fail fast, not have all of this thing (debugging kind of nightmarish...) I have tested with 100 files and of course it all works since I get the IDs back from the registry. But at one point, it all fails. Registry full? What to do here? TIA Phil

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[Survey] Reasoning about objects
by Andrei Chis Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

Hi all, In order to improve object inspectors we are doing a survey. We want to know whether several features are important to you or not when trying to understand objects. This is a very short survey and should't take you more than 10 minutes to complete. Please take this time to participate. Here is the link to the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/xKPxqLxJJv Cheers, Andrei

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New Cog VMs available
by Eliot Miranda Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

... at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3126/ CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscogvm-eem.923/r3126 Include the Unicode plugin in linux Squeak VMs. Include the vm-sound-pulse plugin in all linux VMs. Spur Newspeak: Fix possible forwarding of receiver in implicit receiver sends. -- best, Eliot

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Gofer loadDevelopment Bug?
by Sean P. DeNigris Nov. 9, 2014

Nov. 9, 2014

The following, although seemingly equivalent, produce different results... #1: Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'SeanDeNigris' project: 'SeansPlayground'; configurationOf: 'LivingCode'; load. #ConfigurationOfLivingCode asClass project development load. VS. #2: Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'SeanDeNigris' project: 'SeansPlayground'; configurationOf: 'LivingCode'; loadDevelopment #1 correctly loads package dependencies which #2 fails to load. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Gofer-loadDevelopment-Bug-tp4788987.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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edit values in GTInspector
by Christophe Demarey Nov. 9, 2014

Nov. 9, 2014

Hi, Is it planned to add the possibility to edit instances variables of an object directly from the inspector. I mean without evaluating code, just by clicking on the value and update it? Regards, Christophe.

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