AltBrowser is a tree based system browser for Pharo. It shows you the entire system as a tree, from groups of packages down to the methods, with a code pane on the left. It is refactoring aware and has RB-based filtering; it also replaces the finder and the message browser (i.e., as in old system browsers, you can specialize it to a subset: a package, a class, a list of methods). It's stable enough for development work, without all the features of Nautilus, but a nice subset of. There is a configuration available, with the version for Pharo2 stable, but the version for Pharo3 has just switched from stable to unstable :):) I join a screenshot, where you can see various stages of filtering with the finder. Thierry Le 17/10/2013 16:48, Alexandre Bergel a écrit :
What is the AltBrowser? Any screenshot?
Alexandre
Le 17-10-2013 à 7:52, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> a écrit :
Hi Esteban,
thanks. This annoucement is very much appreciated, and will help me switch to the new RPackage.
Have you changed things in the announcements as well (RPackage created / modified / unregistered?)
Thierry
Le 17/10/2013 12:20, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
Hi,
I just important an important change in Pharo. I made a new step over the integration of RPackage into the system, and as a result there is a different behavior. Although 99% of users shouldn't notice it, that can drive to headaches to tool developers, like Thierry and his AltBrowser (but I'm not sure about that) :) I'm sorry, but this is inevitable... and part of a long path discussed and adopted since almost 1 1/2 years.
So, what's the change? Now 1 RPackage 0 1 MCPackage. As a result, package granularity is coarse, and then categories for class are stored as package tags. Other consequence is that RPackageSet is now more or less useless, but I'm keeping it because it provides caching services for monticello, and the speed up resulting is good :) This change opens the path to remove old PackageInfo, finally :)
To take the new structure into account (and to add a long time awaited feature), I modified nautilus to use a tree instead a simple list (finally!) And since I was in the mood, I moved groups to same list, taking the idea of the screenshot Stef sent the other day (lots of good ideas that we should adopt there), and then I removed the "groups" button... in functionality is good, but visually not so much... I accept ideas about :)
THERE WILL BE BUGS! This is a really deep and important change, I'm pushing it because we need to test and fix. So, do not hesitate to send your reports! Also, there are features in modified-nautilus that are missing. It would be good to have a list of them so I can implement it :)
Please, report any issue around.
Enjoy, Esteban
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