On 8 June 2011 09:36, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi guys
some of you may find the following working document of high interest. Pay attention this is a bit draft and incomplete.
    http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharoOneDotThree
Tools are now accessed via Smalltalk tools aTool and they should be registered via .. @@igor please add something here@@
A tool at class side should implement #registerToolsOn: method. This method will be executed automatically for all classes, when you issue Smalltalk resetTools If you don't want to reset all tools (to defaults) , but instead add new tools when package installed just send #registerToolsOn: in #initialize method of your tool class with 'Smalltalk tools' as argument: SomeTool class>>initialize self registerToolsOn: Smalltalk tools A typical #registerToolsOn: implementation: SomeTool class>>registerToolsOn: registry registry register: self as: #someTool And to access registered tool, now you can use 'Smalltalk tools someTool' idiom. Note, that with tools registry, you are no longer need to keep (and implement) a singleton pattern per each tool class, which requires it , i.e. SomeTool default doSomething. instead, with using registry, you can register a sole tool instance (or class) to registry , and then just write Smalltalk tools someTool doSomething. This means that multiple tools now can get rid of singleton.
Stef
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.