April 2012 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-project] [ANN] Spotlight like morph for pharo

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

This is actually a very cool feature, so much stuff happening, not enough time to look at and test everythingâ¦ Thx! On 24 Apr 2012, at 09:43, Guillermo Polito wrote: > Fwd :) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:53 AM > Subject: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Spotlight like morph for pharo > To: Pharo Development <pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > > > Hi, > > I want to announce a little tool I made the other day (mainly because Mariano asked for it :) > > Do you remember algernon, that tool who was working in pharo 1.1 and is now obsolete? I used it all the time, and I always missed the ability to open browsers without having to type the class name in a workspace, or open a browser first, then look for the class. > So, I created this: > > Gofer it > squeaksource: 'Spotlight'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfSpotlight'; > load. > ConfigurationOfSpotlight loadBleedingEdge. > > if you press shift+enter, you'll get a "spotlight" like morph, with a simple text input with OCompletion inside... is very simple and I think very useful. Of course it can be enhanced in a lot of ways... but let's here the community opinion first, and see if it worths to keep adding functionality.functionality. > > enjoy, > Esteban > > ps: this is also an example of why I hate morphic so much (bah... current dirty implementation): I had to extend two classes just to change the editor used by a textmorph.... come on!!!! >

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Cameron Sanders

Igor, & others, Thanks for the info/links/leads. To be honest, I would rather just use a toolkit than create one. That is not accurate, more accurately: I would rather *create* the toolkit than use it ...* if I had the time*. Unfortunately for me, I do not have the time. So, if there is *only a possibility* that I can generate PDFs that meet my standards with pango/athens/cairo, then I should probably redirect my efforts. Previously I used ReportLab in Python to generate my reports. See the following sample that was generated by code crafted back around 2002/2003: http://ac.functional-analyst.com/fa-reports.php?table=2003-02-28/fa_reports…. ReportLab allowed for simple mark-ups in the text (e.g. <b> ... </b>) and for that version of report, I wrote code that allowed me to use XMLs to define my document components & flow ordering/control. I guess ReportLab's new PLUS version uses XML to give one full control of the document layout. Of course, I want something more attractive than that sample, in this day and age. Color, floating text & image boxes. The reports must meet the standards of today. Perhaps something more like http://debrispublishing.com/images/stories/Reports/2011/06-2011/ECA_2011-06…. But going further than that, in terms of charts, color usage, footnoting the tables, etc. See Standard & Poor's stock reports -- at that quality. The ideal toolkit would have some nice chart making abilities so that we don't have to invest 2 man months in creating a chart-making suite. These reports will be generated weekly for about 9000 companies/funds. The process must be automated. Ideally the report generation would be integrated with my data processing engine, which is in Pharo. Perhaps I will check out PDF4smalltalk. Once I can get my software talking to my DB (soon i hope), I can push my data into the DB and use Python or any other toolset for report generation... *if* I cannot do it in smalltalk. Any leads that anyone can offer are greatly appreciated! (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo > library installed on your OS). > I will have to poke around and learn what NativeBoost is... and which VMs were built with it. The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you more. > Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make > it, for sure. > How dirty? Thanks again for all of the responses. -Cam

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] [Esug-list] GSoC news: we have 13 projects!

by Bert Freudenberg

Excellent! Thank you so much, Janko, Carla, mentors, students, and ESUG :) - Bert - On 24.04.2012, at 05:10, Janko MivÅ¡ek wrote: > Dear Smalltalkers! > > We have 13 GSoC projects and let we welcome to all students whose > proposals were accepted: > > 1. Santiago Bragagnolo > Concrete Type Inference -- Call graph > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/type-inference > 2. Lars Wassermann > ARM jitter for Squeak VM > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/arm-jitter > 3. Facundo Mainere > Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/interactive-tutorial > 4. Benjamin Van Ryseghem > Nautilus > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/nautilus > 5. MartÃn Dias > Package management with Fuel > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/fuel-packages > 6. Guillermo Polito > Bootstrapping the core-Hazelnut > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/hazelnut > 7. Pablo Estefo > TestSurgeon > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/testsurgeon > 8. Daniel Uber > SciSmalltalk > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/sci-smalltalk > 9. Rustem Khubbatov > HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/mmi-amber > 10. Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer > Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/rizel > 11. Saurav Bhattacharya > Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/excel-export > 12. Steve Granda > Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/etoys-sugar > 13. Paul Kuzovkin > Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/esse > > 5 students from Argentina, 2 from Chile, 2 from Russia, 1 from Sweden, > France, USA and let we specially welcome our first Indian student! > > Now a Community bonding period started, when students get to know > mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their > projects. Until 21.May when coding begin. > > Good luck to everyone! > > Janko @ Carla > > > -- > Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team > http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Davorin Rusevljan

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Giorgio Ferraris <giorgio.ferraris(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Seems that people like to reinvent the wheel :( > Ciao and pdf is quite a big wheel if I may say. Like the ones used on bigfoot cars. Davorin Rusevljan http://www.cloud208.com/

April 24, 2012

GSoC news: we have 13 projects!

by Janko MivÅ¡ek

Dear Smalltalkers! We have 13 GSoC projects and let we welcome to all students whose proposals were accepted: 1. Santiago Bragagnolo Concrete Type Inference -- Call graph http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/type-inference 2. Lars Wassermann ARM jitter for Squeak VM http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/arm-jitter 3. Facundo Mainere Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/interactive-tutorial 4. Benjamin Van Ryseghem Nautilus http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/nautilus 5. MartÃn Dias Package management with Fuel http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/fuel-packages 6. Guillermo Polito Bootstrapping the core-Hazelnut http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/hazelnut 7. Pablo Estefo TestSurgeon http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/testsurgeon 8. Daniel Uber SciSmalltalk http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/sci-smalltalk 9. Rustem Khubbatov HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/mmi-amber 10. Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/rizel 11. Saurav Bhattacharya Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/excel-export 12. Steve Granda Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/etoys-sugar 13. Paul Kuzovkin Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/esse 5 students from Argentina, 2 from Chile, 2 from Russia, 1 from Sweden, France, USA and let we specially welcome our first Indian student! Now a Community bonding period started, when students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects. Until 21.May when coding begin. Good luck to everyone! Janko @ Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Giorgio Ferraris

Seems that people like to reinvent the wheel :( Ciao Giorgio Ferraris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:49 AM, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Giorgio Ferraris wrote: > >> Step grane, >> >> Did you know of the PDF4smalltalk project in vw. > > Yes >> It's quite ahead and there is also a reporting infrastructure built and guys are willing to port to other dialect > > I mentioned that to olivier when he started but he wanted to do its own lib. > > ;) > >

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 28

by Roger Gilliar

Am 24.04.2012 um 11:58 schrieb pharo-users-request(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr: > UTF8TextConverter new nextFromStream: '??' asString readStream Thanks for the explanation. After changing stream nextPut: char basicSqueakToIso . to stream nextPut: char . in readStringAtAddress: anAddress from SqliteResult I was able to get the character back that I expected (after using the UTF8TextConverter). And now the following works also (where name contains the UTF-8 string): arrayOfDicts do:[:row | Transcript show: ((row at: #name) convertFromEncoding: 'UTF-8'); cr] Regards Roger

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Organization for the Pharo Conf.

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

yes to me and marcus Stef On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Bernat Romagosa wrote: > Good idea! > > I've just been told Citilab is letting me go to the conference, so we'll meet there. :) > > We're currently developing an application in Iliad and Pharo, involving also a plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Safari, which will be used by about 70 knowledge centres in Spain totalling around 250 users. Our intention was to try to present it at ESUG'12, but maybe we can also introduce it in the PharoConference. Should I send these 3 slides directly to you? > > Cheers! > > Bernat. > > 2012/4/23 StÃ©phane Ducasse <Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Hi guys, > > I'm preparing the conference. I would like to make sure that we can get discussion around technology and business. > > I was thinking that we could have a session where you provide a presentation with 3 () slides > - Your business > - Your technological asset > - What you can share > > We could put theses slides on the web as an advertisement. > > What I would like to get is the message that > - other people should be able to see that we can do business in Pharo, > - that they could get some knowledge, librariesâ¦ > > I'm looking for your ideas on how to setup the program so that we could have exchange on business opportunities. > > > Stef > > > > > > > > -- > Bernat Romagosa.

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Organization for the Pharo Conf.

by Bernat Romagosa

Good idea! I've just been told Citilab is letting me go to the conference, so we'll meet there. :) We're currently developing an application in Iliad and Pharo, involving also a plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Safari, which will be used by about 70 knowledge centres in Spain totalling around 250 users. Our intention was to try to present it at ESUG'12, but maybe we can also introduce it in the PharoConference. Should I send these 3 slides directly to you? Cheers! Bernat. 2012/4/23 StÃ©phane Ducasse <Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Hi guys, > > I'm preparing the conference. I would like to make sure that we can get > discussion around technology and business. > > I was thinking that we could have a session where you provide a > presentation with 3 () slides > - Your business > - Your technological asset > - What you can share > > We could put theses slides on the web as an advertisement. > > What I would like to get is the message that > - other people should be able to see that we can do business in > Pharo, > - that they could get some knowledge, librariesâ¦ > > I'm looking for your ideas on how to setup the program so that we could > have exchange on business opportunities. > > > Stef > > > > > -- Bernat Romagosa.

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Giorgio Ferraris wrote: > Step grane, > > Did you know of the PDF4smalltalk project in vw. Yes > It's quite ahead and there is also a reporting infrastructure built and guys are willing to port to other dialect I mentioned that to olivier when he started but he wanted to do its own lib. ;)

April 24, 2012