Thanks for all the suggestions for easier way to create references. Part of the problem is that I did not sufficiently read the documentation in the class comment. I also did not know of the PBE2 chapter referenced by Stef. Part of the problem is also that the browser in 2.0 is presenting things differently and I am not sure I understand fully what it is communicating. When I look at the class methods in FileSystem most of them are gray and a only few black. It is not self evident what the gray coloration means. Also when one clicks on instance creation, the only method is #store:. So unless you see the class comment, then you won't see the documentation on using FileSystem disk workingDirectory which returns a FileSystemDirectoryEntry instance, while FileSystem disk returns a FileSystem instance. I should have investigated documentation a little harder. Jimmie On 1/8/2013 11:01 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
anyway, even if there are easier ways to create references, I think Jimmie is right, there are inconsistencies in the protocol. maybe for 3.0?
On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2013-01-08, at 17:55, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08.01.2013, at 17:07, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I was writing a small utility using FileSystem. I had never used FileSystem before. So I am browsing the code trying to learn where to start and how to use it.
It took me a little while to learn to do something like: fs := FileSystem store: (DiskStore activeClass createDefault). Why not
fs := FileSystem disk.
??
or:
reference := FileSystem disk referenceTo: '/foo/bar.txt'. or:
'/foo/bar/plonk.txt' asFileReference '/foo/bar' asFileReference
which creates a FileReference on the disk, the default