[Pharo-project] Are there some standard methods of embedding foreign controls into the Squeak desktop?
I have seen this demo on Sean's blog: http://seandenigris.com/blog/?p=723 which shows a QuickTime movie playing on the squeak desktop. Is there some generalized way of getting external controls to show up in Morphic controls or the Squeak desktop itself? I am interested in get text editing controls to appear inside the World view. However I also think that being able to use alternative syntax highlighters inside TextMorphForEditView may be a better alternative. is the Syntax highlighting in TextMorphForEditView hardwired for Smalltalk syntax? -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
On 12 January 2013 12:38, Frank Church <vfclists@gmail.com> wrote:
I have seen this demo on Sean's blog: http://seandenigris.com/blog/?p=723 which shows a QuickTime movie playing on the squeak desktop. Is there some generalized way of getting external controls to show up in Morphic controls or the Squeak desktop itself?
I am interested in get text editing controls to appear inside the World view. However I also think that being able to use alternative syntax highlighters inside TextMorphForEditView may be a better alternative. is the Syntax highlighting in TextMorphForEditView hardwired for Smalltalk syntax?
In Squeak, syntax highlighting's done by Shout. Models interested in doing (Smalltalk) syntax highlighting implement #aboutToStyle: (see CodeHolder subclases), returning true. The precise highlighter is controlled by #shoutParserClass. By default (in Behavior class) that's an SHParserST80. I don't see why one couldn't use a different expression parser. In short, the syntax highlighting is completely independent of the UI widgets like TextMorphForEditView. I meant to tear Lukas Renggli's LanguageBoxes/Helvetia work to pieces so as to bring it back to life, but haven't yet found the time. Helvetia aims to bring arbitrary parsers, compilers and highlighting for same to the various tools, to allow other languages to be used within an image. It's really interesting tech, and I really do need to find the time to hack on it. frank
-- Frank Church
======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
Is there some generalized way of getting external controls to show up in Morphic controls or the Squeak desktop itself?
If I understand your question correctly, I think that believe RFB / VNC can show you the contents of a remote window inside Squeak / Pharo. Good luck with adding parser(s) to Shout, however, as that seems to be the way to go. David
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