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Lets Talk about Pharo Help tool
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 11, 2013

Sept. 11, 2013

Ben wrote >kilon wrote: >> I already have started documenting my GLTutorial package using the pharo help >> tool. It wont be long till I finish that, next is nativeboost. >> >> I took a look at help tool packages , looks like classes are way more simple >> than I expected which is good thing, they are easy to extend , so I think I >> will extend them abit and use them as base for implementing my own help >> tool. I will distribute the result from my own repos (smalltalk hub), in >> case people don't like my own implementation of a help tool. >> >> Thank you all for your assistance. >> >> >> >Great that you are doing these. I'm looking forward to them. >cheers -ben Yes, me too. Tell us when you have something ready and feel free to ask questions if help on help is required. Thx T.

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Pharo vm hangs on startup in XP SP3
by HernÃ¡n Morales Durand Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

Just to let you know the Pharo VM for the 2.0 Windows ( http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo2.0-win.zip) hangs during startup with an uncaught exception in my old Windows XP SP3. There is no .dmp or .log file generated. This is the error signature provided by Windows AppName: pharo.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: pharo.exe ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0004b73f and I have attached the SysInternals "File Monitor" Log. Cheers, HernÃ¡n

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Lets Talk about Pharo Help tool
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

Kilon wrote on "Pharo dev-list" >So my attention came to help tool, I think I get how it works, I started >making the documentation with it, questions is if there is anything more to >it than the functionality I am seeing in the Help docs. Maybe a third party >lib that adds more features ? > >Is there a plan to extend it ? Some time ago I created the "old" in image help tool so one can easily access help directly from the image. It was accepted and integrated into the standard image. It is usable and some projects/packages use it. But since media is (by default) not yet that rich within Pharo and mostly people also would like to see the documentation on the web I created a successor called "PharoOnlineHelp". This also allows you to be more independent with your docu from the help system itself. The new help system: ==================== - is called "Pharo Online Help" - uses only a single "marker" pragma - supports markdown - can be viewed/served online - is not part of the standard image but can be easily loaded How to use it: ============= - take a fresh Pharo 2.0 image from http://files.pharo.org/platform - open the config browser (Tools -> ConfigurationBrowser) - select "PharoOnlineHelp" from the list and easily install it - now in menu "Help" you will find "Help server", click on "Start server" on the control panel - if you are on Windows you can click on "Browse" to open a browser, in any other case go to http://localhost:8080 with your web browser You can now click and browse the available docu that is in the image. It also has an API help and links to most Pharo resources. If you want to extend the "Intro" tutorial section for instance with a "Native Boost" tutorial you can: - create an own class as subclass of Object in your own package - implement a class side message with a pragma #onlineTutorial nativeBoostTutorialOn: aBuilder <onlineTutorial> (aBuilder tutorial: #'Introduction to NativeBoost') description: 'An overview and introduction to the Native boost interface'; addLesson: ... - see class "PharoTutorial" for an example or this picture: http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/attachments/20130224/9… NOTE: the tutorials are written in Markdown, so you can: - write a blog post or website with a tutorial and later aggregate it/link to it in Pharo online help - use and embed rich media like youtube videos, web pages, ... - use Markdown editors like http://dillinger.io/ to write the docu Hope this will answer your questions. You can use the old help but I would rather like people to see jumping to the new online help. Bye Torsten

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Smalltalk positions in research in France
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

Hi guys you can be interested by the following position. stef > From: LoÃ¯c LAGADEC <loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr> > Subject: Profils de postes > Date: September 9, 2013 5:28:59 PM GMT+02:00 > To: stephane.ducasse(a)gmail.com, stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr, loic.lagadec(a)ensta-brest.Fr > > Several smalltalk-centric positions open in Brest (http://www.brest-metropole-tourisme.fr/en/) We also welcome students internship on demand. > > The Phd, engineer and postdoc will be located in the ENSTA Bretagne engineering school (www.ensta-bretagne.eu) and be part of the UMR 6285 Lab-STICC lab. > > > Contact : Loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.Fr > > > - Engineer (1 year) : Start ASAP > > In the scope of the ANR (INS 2011) ARDYT project, we are hiring an engineer for 12 months. The objective of this work is to contribute to the refactoring and improve the (VW written) Biniou Framework (modelling Embedded reconfigurable devices to produce software development environments). Biniou is currently being extended with new features and requires to define a versioning and testing policy. > > - Phd : Start January 2014 > > > In the scope of the FP7 ERATO project, the PhD student will contribute to set up a Professional environment to exploit a new European FPGA (reconfigurable device) dedicated to space application. > > One important contribution will be to expose a manipulation API to application Designers while protecting the hardware intellectual property. Also some compression schemes used for video coding will be stressed against practical experimentation when downsizing the bitstream (binary representation of the application). > > > - postdoc (2 years) : Start january-june 2014 > > In the scope of the FP7 ERATO project, the candidate will contribute to define and develop a Pharo environment to model a new FPGA and to meter performances in a faulty environment (satellite). This postdoc is a perfect opportunity for a Smalltalk expert to transpose its skills to an applicative domain. Depending on the qualification of the candidate, she/he will be co advisor of the PhD student. >

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[update 3.0] #30387
by Marcus Denker Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

30387 ----- 11566 MorphFrameGhost should be renamed and subclassed from BorderedMorph https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11566 11564 ThumbnailImageMorph should be removed https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11564 Diff information: http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Morphic-Base-MarcusDenker.93.…

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Fwd: ESUG 2013 Started!
by Marcus Denker Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > Subject: ESUG 2013 Started! > Date: September 10, 2013 9:45:44 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "esug-list(a)lists.esug.org Members" <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > > ESUG 2013 in Annecey started with great success! > > After a productive and fun Camp Smalltalk (with great food), the main conference started Monday. > > Videos > ======= > This year we again record all taks. The talks are uploaded to Youtube as fast as possible. > https://www.youtube.com/user/esugboard > > Slides > ===== > Slides are collected as pdfs and uploaded to SlideShare. > > - PDF: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/ > - SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/ > (later) > > Pictures > ======== > - Stephan Eggermont: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/35787002@N03/sets/72157635427445171/ > - Adriaan van Os > http://www.a3aan.st/esug2013/index.php/list/ > > Twitter > ====== > > The twitter hash tag is #esug2013. ESUG has an account > https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk >

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[regression reporter]regression occurred
by no-reply＠ci.inria.fr Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/job/Pharo-3.0-Update-Step-2-Validation/label=win/… 1 regressions found. Zinc.Zodiac.ZnHTTPSTests.testGForceInria

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[update 3.0] #30386
by Marcus Denker Sept. 10, 2013

Sept. 10, 2013

30386 ----- 11563 Color>>pixelValue32 should be moved to its single sender https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11563 11561 Leftover System Progress morph https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11561 Diff information: http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Tools-MarcusDenker.1243.diff http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Graphics-Primitives-MarcusDen… http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Graphics-Display Objects-MarcusDenker.114.diff http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Balloon-MarcusDenker.104.diff http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Athens-Balloon-MarcusDenker.1…

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gsoc - Debugger updates
by Clara Allende Sept. 9, 2013

Sept. 9, 2013

Hi guys, sorry for the long time between updates :) On these months of gsoc, I have been working mostly on two aspects: *-Adding support for filtering the stack* Andrei, NicolÃ¡s and I agreed that we wanted filters to be rich objects, so that we can combine them and add new ones at will. After two or three iterations, we ended up having a hierarchy of filters that can combine with other filters by sending #and: and #or: messages, and also we can create filters from any boolean block :) So we have something like: fromBlockFilter := [:ctx | ctx isNotNil] asFilter. doItFilter:= SelectorFilter forSelector: #doIt. fromBlockFilter and: doItFilter. Which return a filter, that can decide if a context should be displayed or not, by sending #shouldDisplay: message. This way, the filters handle a context, and the debugger handles the stack. I filterStack ^self class filterCommonMessageSends ifTrue:[ self stack reject: [:aContext | (self enabledFilters anySatisfy: [:aFilter | aFilter shouldDisplay: aContext]) and: [aContext = self currentContext ] ] ] I will write a post on my blog to explain this in more detail, anyway. So far the default filters from the old debugger have their equivalent in this new filter api. Now I am working on having them as default configuration in settings browser; and the idea is a) enable/disable filters at will b) to let the user add new filters in a per-debugger custom configuration. c) let the users "publish" a custom configuration to be used as default. [image: Inline images 1] *-Object-centric debugger* This is a tricky one. I had tried, and Nico tried too, to migrate BifrÃ¶st to Pharo3.0, so far without success :( BifrÃ¶st relies on the old compiler's ast dependencies and behavior, so it has not been easy to make it work with Opal. We have got in touch with Jorge Ressia and he promised us that he is going to take a look at this ASAP, to tell us whether it's likely or not that we migrate BifrÃ¶st. Nevertheless, it's going to take a while. That being said, I am interested on getting BifrÃ¶st to work in Pharo3.0, and I'm a little sad that I couldn't get to play with object centric reflection for gsoc :( But I intend to keep on working on this after gsoc is over; so I promise I will let you know as soon as I have any news on this. Maybe if we can't integrate BifrÃ¶st we could think of a rework, basing on Jorge's ideas... Or maybe try another approach. Please let me know of any questions, suggestions,etc, I much appreciate them :) Cheers! Clara

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[update 3.0] #30385
by Marcus Denker Sept. 9, 2013

Sept. 9, 2013

30385 ----- 11545 class side definition not working https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11545 10782 Nautilus: Difficult to recategorize method via DND https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10782 11560 TestValueWithinFix tests failing https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11560 Diff information: http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Nautilus-MarcusDenker.537.diff http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/Pharo30/main/Kernel-MarcusDenker.1605.diff

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