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

[ANN] SpecGenerator: easy CRUD applications with Spec

by Stephan Eggermont

Sometimes you just want to quickly create an application for data entry, without spending too much time constructing forms and lists. Wouldn't it be great if you could build something while talking to a client, and directly show the results? SpecGenerator helps you with this. It needs the SelectEntity widget that you can get by loading Ancestry from the catalog, and can be found on smalltalkhub in StephanEggermont/SpecGenerator https://vimeo.com/162589115 Stephan

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] List with Border

by Rob Rothwell

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan(a)stack.nl> wrote: > > Not ideal, and should be fixed. > > Would you consider this a Priority 4 "Would be nice" like Issue 17743 and 17754? (I have been looking for things at my skill level I might actually be able to track down). Rob

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] First impressions, was About Box

by stepharo

Le 12/4/16 19:51, Alistair Grant a Ã©crit : > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:02:52PM +0200, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> Thank you. I was talking about your experience with Pharo :-) >> But your description is nice also. > Ahh, right, sorry about that. > > Pharo 5.0 first impressions from someone coming from VW2.5... > > I'm already a fan of Smalltalk and its development environment. I've > only spent a few hours working with Pharo (it's my hobby, with not > nearly as much time as I would like): > > * I read the first few chapters of Pharo by Example as an introduction > to Pharo. > * The browser, debugger and basic inspectors are all familiar enough > that I was able to work with them without any issues. You should have a look at the inspector Inspect Point>>#x to see what I mean and look at the tabs > * I'm glad that being able to run headless mode is easy, as I'd like to > use Pharo for scripting. Me too. We are starting a new iteration on this. We got a student whose job is to convert bash script to pharo and identify problem so if you want to share effort you are welcome. > * The addition of Montacello / Metacello / Gofer and SUnit are the > biggest improvements I've noticed so far. I wish I had these 20 years > ago. > * I've only played with the MessageFlow Browser a little, but I think it > will be one of my go-to tools. > * I'm still getting used to the idea of the entire ST environment being > in a single OS window, but at the moment I think I prefer VW's > approach where each ST window is a OS window, as it makes it easier to > work with other applications, e.g. if I want to look at an email or > web page while working within ST. In the future you will be able to choose between one window > > I only have one suggested improvement so far (assuming it doesn't > already exist and I just haven't found it yet)... When searching for > packages on SqueakSource / SmalltalkHub etc. it isn't clear to me how > much confidence I can have in any given package, which is really useful > if there are multiple packages providing similar functionality. I hope that soon we will have a package validation in place. > > The Arch Linux model seems pretty good to me. Official packages are in > the core or extra repositories, which matches what is included in the > Pharo image. The next level is a community repository, which contains > packages maintained by Trusted Users. General users can be confident > that these packages will be kept up to date. The last level is the User > Repository (AUR), which anyone can contribute to. The AUR includes a > comment section and vote count, and general users can add or remove > their vote. You get a bit of that in the catalog browser. > > Hope I haven't ruffled too many feathers... > > Thanks! > Alistair > >

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Dawn Theme on Pharo 4.0

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

> On 12 Apr 2016, at 20:47, Siemen Baader <siemenbaader(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:43 PM, stepharo <stepharo(a)free.fr> wrote: > Check the code because it should just be a subclass of the dark theme > with different colors. > > Stef > > Thanks, that helped me to adapt the instructions and make it work! Please consider publishing that so that other can try it too. > -- Siemen >

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Dawn Theme on Pharo 4.0

by stepharo

Super! Could you publish it somewhere because for my vision I cannot use the dark theme. I cannot see what is written in red :). Stef Le 12/4/16 20:47, Siemen Baader a Ã©crit : > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:43 PM, stepharo <stepharo(a)free.fr > <mailto:stepharo@free.fr>> wrote: > > Check the code because it should just be a subclass of the dark theme > with different colors. > > Stef > > > Thanks, that helped me to adapt the instructions and make it work! > > -- Siemen >

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] List with Border

by Stephan Eggermont

On 12-04-16 18:09, Bruce Peaslee wrote: > This code creates the list and fills it, but it does not show a border. Hi Bruce. Indeed, if you look at MorphicListAdapter>buildWidget you'll notice that it uses a PluggableListMorph that ignores border styling and just asks the theme for UITheme>listNormalBorderStyleFor: aList "Return the normal borderStyle for the given list" ^BorderStyle inset width: 1; baseColor: aList paneColor You could subclass the theme you want to use and override that method to look up exceptions, and register your list in the exceptions list. Not ideal, and should be fixed. Stephan

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Dawn Theme on Pharo 4.0

by Siemen Baader

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:43 PM, stepharo <stepharo(a)free.fr> wrote: > Check the code because it should just be a subclass of the dark theme > with different colors. > > Stef > Thanks, that helped me to adapt the instructions and make it work! -- Siemen

April 12, 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] First impressions, was About Box

by Stephan Eggermont

On 12-04-16 19:51, Alistair Grant wrote: > I only have one suggested improvement so far (assuming it doesn't > already exist and I just haven't found it yet)... When searching for > packages on SqueakSource / SmalltalkHub etc. it isn't clear to me how > much confidence I can have in any given package, which is really > useful if there are multiple packages providing similar functionality. One of our community tools for that is a continuous integration server: http://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution. There several of these configurations are build and tested, often against several Pharo versions. Several Pharo users are also already using TravisCI and github for that. Stephan

April 12, 2016

Conditional external dependencies in a Metacello BaselineOf?

by Damien Pollet

I have a couple projects that I develop together; the first depending on the second, and both managed on GitHub (in separate repositories). The BaselineOf therefore expresses the dependency using repository: 'github://â¦' However, I'd like to locally change that to gitfiletree:// so that I can build new development images from scratch, with both projects ready to commit to gitfiletree, with minimal repo juggling and code reloading ? Is there a way to achieve that? Metacello project attributes? a git submodule? -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

April 12, 2016

First impressions, was About Box

by Alistair Grant

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:02:52PM +0200, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > Thank you. I was talking about your experience with Pharo :-) > But your description is nice also. Ahh, right, sorry about that. Pharo 5.0 first impressions from someone coming from VW2.5... I'm already a fan of Smalltalk and its development environment. I've only spent a few hours working with Pharo (it's my hobby, with not nearly as much time as I would like): * I read the first few chapters of Pharo by Example as an introduction to Pharo. * The browser, debugger and basic inspectors are all familiar enough that I was able to work with them without any issues. * I'm glad that being able to run headless mode is easy, as I'd like to use Pharo for scripting. * The addition of Montacello / Metacello / Gofer and SUnit are the biggest improvements I've noticed so far. I wish I had these 20 years ago. * I've only played with the MessageFlow Browser a little, but I think it will be one of my go-to tools. * I'm still getting used to the idea of the entire ST environment being in a single OS window, but at the moment I think I prefer VW's approach where each ST window is a OS window, as it makes it easier to work with other applications, e.g. if I want to look at an email or web page while working within ST. I only have one suggested improvement so far (assuming it doesn't already exist and I just haven't found it yet)... When searching for packages on SqueakSource / SmalltalkHub etc. it isn't clear to me how much confidence I can have in any given package, which is really useful if there are multiple packages providing similar functionality. The Arch Linux model seems pretty good to me. Official packages are in the core or extra repositories, which matches what is included in the Pharo image. The next level is a community repository, which contains packages maintained by Trusted Users. General users can be confident that these packages will be kept up to date. The last level is the User Repository (AUR), which anyone can contribute to. The AUR includes a comment section and vote count, and general users can add or remove their vote. Hope I haven't ruffled too many feathers... Thanks! Alistair

April 12, 2016