March 2016 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] Spotter Survey

by Tudor Girba

Hi, In case you did not do it yet, please consider spending 5 minutes to fill in this survey. It helps us advertise this work to the outside world, and get a better picture of where to move next. Cheers, Doru > On Mar 29, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Andrei Chis <chisvasileandrei(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > We are conducting a small survey about Spotter. > It would help us if you would complete the survey at: http://spotter.limequery.com/index.php/216683/lang-en > > We will use the data from this survey both in a research tasks and to help us to further improve Spotter. > The survey should take you less than 5 minutes to complete. > > Thanks for your help! > > Cheers, > Andrei > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "One cannot do more than one can do."

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] OS-Linux-CentOS

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

> On 31 Mar 2016, at 18:35, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > Hi Torsten, > > This is a very cool piece of work! Thanks. +10 > Cheers, > Doru > > >> On Mar 31, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> the OS-xxx series with (so far) >> >> - OS-Windows >> - OS-Linux-Ubuntu >> - OS-Unix >> - OS-Raspbian >> >> now has a new member called "OS-Linux-CentOS" which is more or less an adopted/customized >> pendant to "OS-Linux-Ubuntu". >> >> Project page is at http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~OS/OS-Linux-CentOS >> >> Ready for Pharo 5. As ever you can load from Catalog tool or directly by entering "CentOS" >> into the Spotter search tool. >> >> Enjoy the video: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAwtVeoll_k >> >> Bye >> T. >> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?" > >

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] OS-Linux-CentOS

by Tudor Girba

Hi Torsten, This is a very cool piece of work! Thanks. Cheers, Doru > On Mar 31, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares(a)gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > the OS-xxx series with (so far) > > - OS-Windows > - OS-Linux-Ubuntu > - OS-Unix > - OS-Raspbian > > now has a new member called "OS-Linux-CentOS" which is more or less an adopted/customized > pendant to "OS-Linux-Ubuntu". > > Project page is at http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~OS/OS-Linux-CentOS > > Ready for Pharo 5. As ever you can load from Catalog tool or directly by entering "CentOS" > into the Spotter search tool. > > Enjoy the video: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAwtVeoll_k > > Bye > T. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?"

March 31, 2016

[ANN] OS-Linux-CentOS

by Torsten Bergmann

Hi, the OS-xxx series with (so far) - OS-Windows - OS-Linux-Ubuntu - OS-Unix - OS-Raspbian now has a new member called "OS-Linux-CentOS" which is more or less an adopted/customized pendant to "OS-Linux-Ubuntu". Project page is at http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~OS/OS-Linux-CentOS Ready for Pharo 5. As ever you can load from Catalog tool or directly by entering "CentOS" into the Spotter search tool. Enjoy the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAwtVeoll_k Bye T.

March 31, 2016

[ANN] OS-Windows 2.1 project updated for Pharo 5 (NB to UFFI transition)

by Torsten Bergmann

Hi, the "OS-Windows" package [1] from my "OS-xxx" Pharo goodies series [2] is providing better access to native Windows APIs and wraps Windows functionality for easier access/coding in Pharo (browser, console, processes, shell, window, GDI, ...). Some of you may know or use this package already. Up to the last provided stable version for Pharo 4 all my code and bindings were based on "old" NativeBoost (NB). With the transition away from NB over to new UniversalFFI (UFFI) within Pharo 5 it was necessary to port/migrate the code over to UFFI for all the OS-xxx projects. Work of the Windows port started when UFFI was still shaky (December) and in a separate repo [3]. It was not easy in the beginning, some headbanging against the wall and feeling like a crash test dummy was involved - basing the port on early UFFI code and without much documentation. Several UFFI issues had to be discussed with Esteban Lorenzano in private conversations on #slack: often leading to some updated UFFI versions afterwards and an updated worklog of Esteban [4]. In the Pharo spirit "step by step" all of this got analyzed, fixed, renamed, improved and integrated into latest Pharo 5 in the last months. Esteban was VERY VERY supportive and adopted UFFI for all the needs! ONCE AGAIN: A BIG THANK YOU, ESTEBAN!!! Long story short: I can now release "OS-Windows" again into the wild for Pharo 5: fully compatible, again with cleaner code, some more functionality and even more tests (from 77 to now 81) As ever it is easy to access: open spotter in Pharo 5 and load "OSWindows". Full docu is on the project page [1], the new version is fully compatible to the Pharo 4 version so there was no need to change a single line in the tutorial. ;) Have fun T. [1] http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~OS/OS-Windows [2] http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~OS [3] http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/NOS [4] http://log.smallworks.eu/

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Tables in Pillar

by Damien Cassou

Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> writes: > Wow that sounds a lot of things are possible. Do you have a roadmap? There are plenty of things we would like to do: - clean the issue tracker by doing all the simple things (it's time for users to write their ideas there) - facilitate the creation of new Pillar projects. Currently, it's a hell to start a new book or a new lecture. - simplify Pillar to avoid the current transformation to a build system. We want to remove the dependency to the Mustache template engine. We also want to remove Pillar's ability to compile LaTeX files to PDF. I want Pillar to do just 1 thing: convert a .pillar to a .tex/.html/.*. The rest will move to external projects, reusing as much as possible of what's already there (e.g., GNU/Make) and leveraging other tools (e.g., other template engines, even not implemented in Pharo). - refactor and recompose Pillar's source code to break all package cycles. Also make sure no new cycle is created in the future by adding a check in the test suite. - add a new XML-based exporter to publish the Mooc on a dedicated platform - take care of all the user's feedback during the internship -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Spec ListModel synchronization

by Robert J Rothwell

Thanks Johan, for your reply. That's great that there is a path forward with Spec; I think I'll be able to figure it out! I'll have to dig deeper into updateList, because right now the only thing it seems to do for me is clear any list selections, so I'm not sure if there is supposed to be a relationship between the original collection passed to the ListModel with the items: message or not. Thanks again, Rob > On Mar 30, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > to answer your 2 questions briefly: > > Yes, Spec is here to stay for good, and the idea is that it can compose any kind of widgets, so with a bridge to OSWindow-SDL2 that should work as well. > > When changing items in the list, you need to inform the widget of that. To do that you need to call the updateList method on your ListModel instance. So in your example: > > aList add: 1. > aListModel updateList. > > HTH, > >> On Mar 30, 2016, at 13:19, Rob Rothwell <r.j.rothwell(a)gmail.com <mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> It's been a while since I tried out Pharo. I always struggled with Morphic UI's, but I noticed Spec and there seemed to be enough examples floating around that I thought I'd give it another try. >> >> Is Spec "here to stay?" Is it worthwhile to figure it out? It seems like with the developing possibilities of OSWindow-SDL2, one might use Spec to compose native widgets as well. >> >> My main question is about synchronizing domain changes with a Spec UI. >> >> For example, if I create an empty list of items: >> >> aList := OrderedCollection new. >> >> And create and open a ListModel that uses that list: >> >> aListModel := ListModel new >> items: aList; >> openWithSpec; >> yourself. >> >> I get a nice empty list. >> >> If I add an item to my list: >> >> aList add: 1. >> >> Then I need to update the list with another: >> >> aListModel items: aList. >> >> To see it show up. >> >> Alternatively (this seems wrong), I can add an item to the ListModel listItems directly: >> >> aListModel items: (aListModel listItems add: 1; yourself). >> >> Is that basically what you need to do to maintain synchronization between your domain list and the Spec UI representation of that list, or am I missing something? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Rob > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <http://emailcharter.org/> <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry <http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry> > PLEIAD and RyCh labs - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile >

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Spec ListModel synchronization

by Robert J Rothwell

Thanks Stephan, this is a very nice example of lots of Spec usage that I'm sure I can learn a lot from! As far as refreshing the list view, you did the same thing that I found to work by using the ListModel>>items: message, which in your case was very natural because you are creating a new, filtered list after a new person has been added. Thanks again for pointing this out to me, Rob > On Mar 30, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan(a)stack.nl> wrote: > > In Pharo5, you can download Ancestry from the Catalog browser, > that provides an example of this. https://vimeo.com/158063568 > > Stephan > > > >

March 31, 2016

[ANN] Search and open Unix man pages in Pharo (using OSUnix project)

by Torsten Bergmann

I added the possibility to search and open Unix man pages (commands, functions and header files) directly from Pharo Spotter. You will find it in the updated version of my OSUnix support package in catalog (Pharo 5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81eehVO14KU Have fun T.

March 31, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Tables in Pillar

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 31.03.2016 um 12:39 schrieb Damien Cassou <damien.cassou(a)inria.fr>: > > "Esteban A. Maringolo" <emaringolo(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> Was this fixed, considered for a roadmap (if there is one), etc? > > an issue is in the tracker. 2 brilliant students will work on Pillar for > the next 5 months starting next Monday. I'm quite sure we will see a lot > of new stuff. Wow that sounds a lot of things are possible. Do you have a roadmap? Norbert

March 31, 2016