Nice!

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:04 PM, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:

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https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19798/Make-Spotter-look-for-open-windows

I got it working properly now.

Do we want this to come before the search for custom menus?�� Having another search first would make it more difficult to use Spotter to quickly find items in the world menu.

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But how is one to package a Spotter extension in a given package without having to touch GTSpotter extensions core?

We usually package extensions related to the core parts of the IDE in the��GT-SpotterExtensions-Core. Otherwise you can create a dedicated package with extensions for a certain project.��

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This is indeed easy to understand once gone through the motions and opens a lot of doors for open data exploration with custom spotters.

Question: how can I wire several spotters together?

If you click on the arrow to the right of the selected row (or use Meta+ArrowRight) you will trigger the dive-in action that will open Spotter on the selected object. This will load searches specific to that object. For example if you dive in into a window object you will get a search thorough the submorphs and shortcuts associated with the window. They are defined in the Morph class. If you want to add some specific searches that apply to a window you can add them to the SystemWindow class.

Cheers,

Andrei��

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Phil

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
Nice one, Phil :)

Doru

> On Mar 4, 2017, at 7:32 PM, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
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> I made a little experiment to get the windows listed in spotter.
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> I have still an issue with the activation and some weird windows listed but should be able to give you just that in a couple hours.
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> This is a good opportunity for me to jump into spotter extensions, thx for the nudge�� :-)
>
> Phil
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> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
> A quick note on an idea that strikes me,
> I often find myself with a large number of windows open and I know I have a code window open previously but the task bar is a bit opaque to find it,
> and its so cheap to open a new code window from Spotter, thats what I do,
> and open yet another window, making it harder again to find any particular window.
> You can see the downward spiral here.
>
> So apart from more discipline is managing the number of windows I have open
> a passing idea is that for if an existing code window is open, Spotter brings that to the front rather than opening another window.�� Optionally, if that code window is dirty, as well as bringing it to the front a fresh code window be opened as well, so that the two are immediately comparable.
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> cheers -ben
>

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