In fact, I ant to know if the limit is negative or not because if it's, so it just act like a classic PluggableTextMorph ( if the same text morph is used to display source code and comments, you do not want to restrict comment size ). But I could use a boolean instead, it was just a first release to know if the concept is cool enough to be used :) Thanks for your feedback :) Ben On May 4, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Fernando Olivero wrote:

Hi Ben, its a cool idea. To use this physiological "stress factor" to force developers to stop coding really long method.

I looked at the class, i only disliked the statement

self warningLimit negative ifTrue:[ ^ self basicColor].

you could do : warningLimit: aNumber warningLimit := aNumber max: 0.

Fernando

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello Smalltalkers,

I'm currently working on new code editing tools, and I've implemented a new subclass of PluggableTextMorph named PluggableTextMorphWithLimits , with a code oriented feature:

You have a warningLimit ( 350 by default ) and an alertLimit ( 2* warningLimit by default ), and the number of characters of the text displayed is counted ( without space, tabs, cr etc).

If you are below the warning limit, the background is white ( or the default color ), if you are between warningLimit and alertLimit, the background turn more and more yellow, and if you are above the alertLimit, the background turn orange :)

After using it for ten minutes, you start shivering when the background turn yellow ;)

Gofer new squeaksource: 'Nautilus'; package: 'PluggableTextMorphWithLimits'; load.

You can test it by evaluating:

PluggableTextMorphWithLimits example.

I think it will be used by Nautilus, but maybe more code editing tools should used it.

Thanks in advance for your feedback :)

Ben

Yes, sadly you're right ... The global idea is to have metrics ran on the fly, with a visible impact. Because I'm not a metric expert at all, calculating the number of characters is a bit (too) simplistic, but if programers play the game, it could be useful I think :) Thank you for your feedback Ben On May 4, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

I think the idea is interesting. However, this is to be confirmed by further experiments.

Humans are very good at adapting their strategy, and one adaptation could be to shrink names like this: | aa | aa := ... instead of | allAnscestors | allAncestors := ... Definitely not the original goal...

Nicolas

2011/5/4 Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com>:

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In fact, I ant to know if the limit is negative or not because if it's, so it just act like a classic PluggableTextMorph ( if the same text morph is used to display source code and comments, you do not want to restrict comment size ).

But I could use a boolean instead, it was just a first release to know if the concept is cool enough to be used :)

Thanks for your feedback :)

Ben

On May 4, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Fernando Olivero wrote:

...

Hi Ben, its a cool idea. To use this physiological "stress factor" to force developers to stop coding really long method.

I looked at the class, i only disliked the statement

self warningLimit negative ifTrue:[ ^ self basicColor].

you could do : warningLimit: aNumber warningLimit := aNumber max: 0.

Fernando

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hello Smalltalkers,

I'm currently working on new code editing tools, and I've implemented a new subclass of PluggableTextMorph named PluggableTextMorphWithLimits , with a code oriented feature:

You have a warningLimit ( 350 by default ) and an alertLimit ( 2* warningLimit by default ), and the number of characters of the text displayed is counted ( without space, tabs, cr etc).

If you are below the warning limit, the background is white ( or the default color ), if you are between warningLimit and alertLimit, the background turn more and more yellow, and if you are above the alertLimit, the background turn orange :)

After using it for ten minutes, you start shivering when the background turn yellow ;)

Gofer new squeaksource: 'Nautilus'; package: 'PluggableTextMorphWithLimits'; load.

You can test it by evaluating:

PluggableTextMorphWithLimits example.

I think it will be used by Nautilus, but maybe more code editing tools should used it.

Thanks in advance for your feedback :)

Ben