March 2019 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Text presenter autosave features

by Offray Vladimir Luna CÃ¡rdenas

Hi, While migrating Grafoscopio from Pharo 6.x to Pharo 7.x., I noticed that auto save for text fields is not enabled. Previously, when I wrote something in a text field, the dirty mark in the upper right corner appeared and if autoAccept was enabled, the text was automatically saved. Now with Pharo 7.x the dirty mark don't appear at all, and is not making any auto-saving. * I see that TextPresenter is the one who is responsible for such text objects. There is any minimal example I can use to test the proper behavior? * There is any way to use WelcomeHelp class to get a similar behavior? Thanks, Offray

March 23, 2019

FFI to UFFI

by TomaÅ¾ Turk

I started to play with ODBC package upgrade from Pharo 4.0 to 7.0 (http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/PharoExtras/ODBC) more or less as an exercise. As a smalltalk novice I stubmled to the challenge of, as it seems, an old FFI syntax. When I try to load the package into Pharo 7.02 on Windows, I get this error: I have two questions: - Is there any elegant way to successfuly load the package into Pharo 7 to get started with the code adaptation? - And, of course, I'd be grateful if someone could point me into the right direction of how to tackle with the above cdecl syntax with the new UFFI. Best wishes Tomaz

March 23, 2019

[CfP] DLS 2019 - 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium, co-located with SPLASH 2019

by Nick Papoylias

======================================================================== Call for Papers DLS 2019 - 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium Co-located with SPLASH 2019, October 22, Athens, Greece https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019 Follow us @dynlangsym ======================================================================== Dynamic Languages play a fundamental role in todayâs world of software, from the perspective of research and practice. Languages such as JavaScript, R, and Python are vehicles for cutting edge research as well as building widely used products and computational tools. The 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2019 is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on dynamic languages. DLS 2019 invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Areas of interest are generally empirical studies, language design, implementation, and runtimes, which includes but is not limited to: - innovative language features - innovative implementation techniques - innovative applications - development environments and tools - experience reports and case studies - domain-oriented programming - late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation - reflection and meta-programming - software evolution - language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages - dynamic optimization - interpretation, just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation - soft/optional/gradual typing - hardware support - educational approaches and perspectives - semantics of dynamic languages - frameworks and languages for the Cloud and the IoT Submission Details ------------------ Submissions must neither be previously published nor under review at other events. DLS 2019 uses a single-blind, two-phase reviewing process. Papers are assumed to be in one of the following categories: Research Papers: describe work that advances the current state of the art Experience Papers: describe insights gained from substantive practical applications that should be of a broad interest Dynamic Pearls: describe a known idea in an appealing way to remind the community and capture a readerâs interest The program committee will evaluate each paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. The paper category needs to be indicated during submission, and papers are judged accordingly. Papers are to be submitted electronically at https://dls19.hotcrp.com/ in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM SIGPLAN conference acmart format, 10 point font, and should not exceed 12 pages. Please see full details in the instructions for authors available at: https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019#Instructions-for-Authors DLS 2019 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be freely available for one month, starting two weeks before the event. Important Deadlines ------------------- Abstract Submission: May 29, 2019 Paper Submission: June 5, 2019 First Phase Notification: July 3, 2019 Final Notifications: August 14, 2019 Camera Ready: August 28, 2019 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h). AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Program Committee ----------------- Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, Heinrich-Heine-UniversitÃ¤t DÃ¼sseldorf Chris Seaton, Oracle Labs David Chisnall, Microsoft Research Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Gregor Richards, University of Waterloo Guido Chari, Czech Technical University Hannes Payer, Google James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Joe Gibbs Politz, University of California San Diego Juan Fumero, The University of Manchester Julien Ponge, Red Hat Mandana Vaziri, IBM Research Manuel Serrano, Inria Marc Feeley, UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al Mark Marron, Microsoft Research Na Meng, Virginia Tech Nick Papoulias, UniversitÃ© Grenoble Alpes Richard Roberts, Victoria University of Wellington Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Sarah Mount, Aston University SÃ©bastien Doeraene, Ãcole polytechnique fÃ©dÃ©rale de Lausanne William Cook, University of Texas at Austin Program Chair ------------- Stefan Marr, University of Kent, United Kingdom

March 23, 2019

How cn I improve this code

by Roelof Wobben

Hello, As a challenge I had to write some code that makes ranks from a competition. Im still busy trying to find out how to model this problem. Right now I have made the code I included and I wonder how I can improve this code before I go on with this way. Roelof

March 23, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnURL and parsing URL with diacritics

by PBKResearch

I recall seeing this trick when Sven published it, but I have never tried it. Trying it now, I get strange results. I entered: 'https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/pÃ©ripÃ©tie' asFileReference asUrl. And when I inspect the result, it is the address of a non-existent file in my image directory. I am using Moose 6.1 ( Pharo 6.0 Latest update: #60541) on Windows 10. This is not a current image, I know, but it is more recent than the date of Sven's post (Dec 2014). Has something changed since 2014? Incidentally, I tried the other trick Sven cites in the same thread. The same url as above can be written: 'https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki' asUrl / 'pÃ©ripÃ©tie'. This works fine, and is neater than the alternative with explicit percent encoding which I currently use. So thanks Sean for pointing me to the thread. Peter Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-bounces(a)lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of Sean P. DeNigris Sent: 23 March 2019 04:00 To: pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] ZnURL and parsing URL with diacritics Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list wrote > OK. Thanks for examples. But in my case, the bad URL (with diacritics) > comes directly from the Zomato.com REST API (they probably do not read > specs), so I'll end up with a few "hacks" with strings. Sven actually found a trick to handle this case and then forgot he he [1]. Just in case you still have the issue: 'http://myhost/path/with/umlaut/Ã¤Ã¶Ã¼.txt' asFileReference asUrl. 1. http://forum.world.st/Umlauts-in-ZnUrl-tp4793736.html ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

March 23, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnURL and parsing URL with diacritics

by Sean P. DeNigris

Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list wrote > OK. Thanks for examples. But in my case, the bad URL (with diacritics) > comes directly from the Zomato.com REST API (they probably do not read > specs), so I'll end up with a few "hacks" with strings. Sven actually found a trick to handle this case and then forgot he he [1]. Just in case you still have the issue: 'http://myhost/path/with/umlaut/Ã¤Ã¶Ã¼.txt' asFileReference asUrl. 1. http://forum.world.st/Umlauts-in-ZnUrl-tp4793736.html ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

March 23, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnUrls with Non-ASCII characters

by Sean P. DeNigris

Sean P. DeNigris wrote > I ran into this issue again. I found a few other threads where this came up before over the years, but seemed unresolved. Just after I posted I found one from 2014 [1] where you shared a trick that worked! Namely, 'http://myhost/path/with/umlaut/Ã¤Ã¶Ã¼.txt' asFileReference asUrl. 1. http://forum.world.st/Umlauts-in-ZnUrl-tp4793736.html ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

March 23, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] ZnUrls with Non-ASCII characters

by Sean P. DeNigris

Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >> 'https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prÃªt#French' asUrl => >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pr%C3%AAt#French >> ? > > It would probably be possible to write a more lenient parser as opposed to > a strict one. I have not yet given that idea much thought. I ran into this issue again. The problem is that I got the URL from an outside source, so I don't have the luxury of constructing it bit by bit. The non-ASCII stuff this time is in the query, but I can't turn it into a URL to parse it to safely separate out the query :/ ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

March 23, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] Using GitHub's APIs to query repo metadata with Pharo 7

by Sean P. DeNigris

Christopher Fuhrman wrote > https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Using-GitHub-API-in-Pharo/ Cool! Thanks for sharing :) ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

March 23, 2019

Using GitHub's APIs to query repo metadata with Pharo 7

by Christopher Fuhrman

Another blog entry, this time for my experiments with GitHub's API to get metadata about repos. It's probably not so esoteric, but I documented what I did in hope that it will be useful. https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Using-GitHub-API-in-Pharo/

March 22, 2019