November 2023 - Pharo-users

Problems using Neo2 Layout

by Ricardo G. Herdt

Hi, I use the Neo2 keyboard layout (https://www.neo-layout.org/) It provides a.o.t. a layer (4) that has custom navigation keys, for instance one can press (thinking in terms of a regular layout) 'AltGr+s' for left, 'AltGr+f' for right and so on. This works on every single program I use, what makes it very convenient to me, since I don't have to reconfigure programs to accept shortcuts I'm used to. Unfortunately this does not work in Pharo. For what it is worth, I tried it in Squeak, and it works there. IntelliJ IDEA also has this problem by default, what can be solved by checking "Settings -> Keymap -> Use national keyboards for shortcuts". Is someone aware of any workaround for Pharo? As I understand it, either it doesn't accept navigation keys produced by a modifier key, or modifier keys are mapped somehow differently than in my OS. I'm using Debian 12 with Gnome 43.6 + wayland and Pharo 12.0. Regards, Ricardo G. Herdt

Nov. 18, 2023

This week (46/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo 11 Backports - backport: Guard RubAbstractTextArea>>#recomputeSelection for empty paragraphs #15140 #15375 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15375 - backport "Defer change list update to avoid a race condition" #14853 #15374 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15374 - 15372-backport-Pharo11-safer-morph-access-in-NECMenuMorphmouseDown-14356 #15373 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15373 # Fixes - Fix scaling of #blankIcon and #notFoundIcon on ThemeIcons #15399 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15399 - 15299-UFFI-should-release-pointers-allocated-for-packing-for-arity #15300 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15300 - 15302-FreeTypeFonts-should-not-use-autorelease-of-ExternalAddresses #15303 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15303 - Calypso: Fix display of extended classes in project view #15314 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15314 - Fix imageCleaner concurrency issue when unifying literals #15385 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15385 - Do not log recompilation in the source file #15398 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15398 - Guard removals of morphs in layouts #1467 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1467 # Features - Extend ThemeIcons to load the icons for all scales in the icon pack #15323 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15323 - Auto completion should propose globals #15392 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15392 - Calypso: Show content of projects #15315 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15315 # Package Model Cleanup - Packages: Fix missing extensions after class recompiling #15326 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15326 - Introduce a method to get the meta model announcer #15310 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15310 - Packages: Remove #definedSelectors cache #15278 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15278 - Packages: Removing more references to #category #15320 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15320 - RPackage: Deprecate #includesDefinedSelector:ofClass: #15214 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15214 - Package: Move extension methods of RPackage #15346 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15346 - Rename RPackageOrganizer into PackageOrganizer #15360 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15360 - Monticello: Remove usage of RPackageSet #15363 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15363 - Update RPackage dependencies #15393 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15393 - DependencyAnalyzer: Remove usage of RPackageSet #15368 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15368 # Monticello - Remove MCPatchBrowser #15376 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15376 - Monticello: Introduce Monticello-Model #15350 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15350 - Monticello: Simplify method loading #15292 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15292 - Monticello: Remove dead code #15351 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15351 - Monticello: Move mocks to mock package #15361 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15361 - Remove WorkingCopy spotter entries #610 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/610 # MetaCello - Cleanup metacello #15287 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15287 - Metacello: New cleaning pass #15312 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15312 - Add missing methods for SmalltalkCI #15339 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15339 - Fixes #15342: Monticello: GitHub CI fails with DNU #15344 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15344 - Metacello: fix block evaluation #15362 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15362 # Kernel - Allow to create anonymous classes in a specific environment #15309 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15309 - Fix bug in remake of anonymous classes #15343 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15343 - Undeclared: declare:from: cleanup, first step #15290 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15290 - Remove private system announcer #15355 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15355 - do not hardcode global environment in #removeFromSystem: #15357 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15357 - Add binary selector alias for #newFromArray: for Collection #15316 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15316 # Traits - Traits: Fix bug in dictionary rebuild #15353 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15353 - Speedup #explicitRequirement #15322 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15322 - Traits: Speedup #isFromTrait #15318 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15318 - Rename TraitsV2 into Traits #15319 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15319 - Traits: Do a new cleaning pass over the traits tests and fix file out bug #15304 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15304 - Remove TraitsV2-Compatibility #15325 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15325 # Refactoring Engine - Migrate rename class to driver #15394 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15394 - remove deadcode from driver package #15390 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15390 - RB: A simple fix for abstract methods. No brainer. #15331 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15331 - Remove unused SycRemoveMethodCommand #15337 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15337 - Refactorings: Follow package name convention #15340 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15340 # Tests - Fix #testUndeclared in case of failure #15356 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15356 - Release tests: Improve testNoSentButNotImplementedSelectors #15341 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15341 - Use a test resource for SystemDependenciesTest #15308 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15308 # Cleanup - Some cleanup of CodeExport #15380 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15380 - Deprecate gofer command line #15347 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15347 - Clean AST-Core #15358 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15358 - Remove #isUnitTest #15349 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15349 - Manifest builder should not rely on categories #15324 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15324 - Remove workspace #15284 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15284 - Deprecate TRBProgramNodeVisitor #15305 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15305 - Refactor #inspectionIcons on ThemeIcons to use the #icons accessor #609 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/609 # Cleanup Trivail - fix icons #15371 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15371 - use allButFirst and simplify expression #15382 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15382 - use allButFirst instead of copyFrom:to: #15369 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15369 - use allButFirst instead of copyFrom:to: #15366 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15366 - Remove deprecated calls #15354 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15354 - Cleanup: usage of notNil in Text-Scanning, Rubric, HeuristicCompletion, NECCompletion, Growl, Regex #15296 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15296 - Cleanup: usage of notNil in Calypse, Microdown, System-Changes, STON, System-Settings #15297 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15297 - Cleanup: Usage of "notNil" and "isEmpty not" in Zinc / Zodiac #15253 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15253

Nov. 17, 2023

Re: [Pharo-dev] New blog post on all:objects all: theTime

by Noury Bouraqadi

Thank you Koen for update. Keep pushing. Noury On Nov 15 2023, at 8:25 am, Koen De Hondt <koen(a)all-objects-all-the-time.st> wrote: > Dear Pharo users and developers, > > After my presentation at ESUGâ23, which has been added to my blog (https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/4) too, I wrote an evaluation of Calypso (https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/5) in which I refer to results of the Pharo Browser Survey that I presented at ESUGâ23. > > It is a long post. It will be the basis for more posts on browsers in Pharo. > > My blog does not support commenting. If you have any feedback or comment, please feel free to send me a message. > > Happy reading! > > Ciao, > Koen

Nov. 15, 2023

New blog post on all:objects all: theTime

by Koen De Hondt

Dear Pharo users and developers, After my presentation at ESUGâ23, which has been added to my blog <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/4> too, I wrote an evaluation of Calypso <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/5>, in which I refer to results of the Pharo Browser Survey that I presented at ESUGâ23. It is a long post. It will be the basis for more posts on browsers in Pharo. My blog does not support commenting. If you have any feedback or comment, please feel free to send me a message. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

Nov. 15, 2023

This week (45/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Feature - Proposal: new message browser layout #15229 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15229 # Fixes - Calypso: Fix refresh of project view #15281 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15281 - Stay in calypso project view when selecting a class #15247 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15247 - Shout: Fix styling of symbols representing a deprecated global variable #15274 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15274 - Calypso: Add Undefined project #15246 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15246 - Fix clean blocks with dead context on debugger #15153 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15153 - Fix âspanâ in BalloonEngine not being wider than the âdestFormâ #15236 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15236 - Calypso: Fix taskbar label #15226 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15226 # Refactoring Engine - Feat: Add Override method transformation #15225 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15225 # RPackage - Rpackage: Extension methods should know their package #15212 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15212 - Introduce Behavior>>#definedSelectors and #definedMethods and add tests #15264 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15264 - Simplify ClassRemoved and MethodRemoved now that packages are preserved #15262 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15262 - Make class know its package tag instead of its category #15239 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15239 - Ring-Definitions: Remove concept of categories #15235 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15235 - Deprecate Class>>#category: and ShiftClassBuilder>>#category(:) #15237 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15237 - Packages: Do some cleanings #15219 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15219 # Fluid Class Definitions - Fix more deprecated messages in traits #15275 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15275 # Compiler - Opal: Add concept of prior methods #15291 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15291 - Fix trait method recompilation and clean #15263 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15263 - Opal: Make plugins no-op to not crash during the loading #15289 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15289 # Undeclared - Introduce a specific collection for undeclareds #15271 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15271 - Ensure no association is added to the system dictionary #15241 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15241 # Tests - Clean traits tests #15243 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15243 - Release test: Add test that all packages are defined in a baseline #15273 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15273 - updates the #manuallyResolvedDependencies #15286 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15286 - Remove some classes generated by tests #15272 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15272 - Fix one more test cleanup #15248 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15248 - Improve cleanups of tests #15244 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15244 - Improve tests logs #15242 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15242 - Improve logs while running tests #15217 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15217 # Cleanup - Ring: Simplify Ring-Definitions/Ring-Definitions-Containers #15230 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15230 - add trace to #iconNamed:ifNone: to log all old names #15200 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15200 - Fix some icon references #15276 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15276 - Remove unused Calypso-SystemPlugins-Monticello-Queries #15270 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15270 - Merge Metacello-PharoExtensions into Metacello-Base #15215 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15215 - Calypso: Simplify ClyExtendingPackagesQuery adn clean package API #15221 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15221 # Trivial - Fix some deprecations #15238 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15238 - Cleanup: do not use notNil in Ring #15250 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15250 - Cleanup: usage of #notNil in Morphic #15260 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15260 - Cleanup: usage of #notNil in UnifiedFFI #15256 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15256 - Cleanup: Usage of notNil in Kernel #15269 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15269 - Cleanup: usage of #notNil in Athens, Graphics, Polymorph, FreeType, EmbeddedFreeType and FormCanvas #15267 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15267

Nov. 10, 2023

Last week (44/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo 11 - Backport Pharo11: Optimize Dictionary>>unreferencedKeys #15196 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15196 # External Packages - Update roassal v1.05b #15159 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15159 # Features - Calypso: Introduce a project view based on baselines in the image #15155 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15155 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15176 # Fixes - Spotter not opening minimized window (issue #603) #604 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/604 - Following symbolic links when canonicalising FileReferences. #14773 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14773 - fix 13709: Code Completion: completion sometimes has its window in a â¦ #15151 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15151 - Fix moving classes in tags #15146 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15146 - Force rescheduling of inactive process when changing its priority (fixes #14701) #14905 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14905 - Replacing the use of species new with copyEmpty. #15150 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15150 - Fix depth conversion in #image:size: on AlphaImageMorph to use the original Formâs extent #15170 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15170 - Fix random bug in auto completion #15175 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15175 - Inlining select:thenCollect: and reject:thenCollect: to not do two iterations on the same collection #15149 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15149 - Replace extracted expression only in containing scope (fixes #14771) #14906 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14906 - Calypso: Fix regression in taskbar label #15220 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15220 - Refactor AlphaImageMorph to replace âcachedFormâ by âcachedFormSetâ #15189 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15189 # RPackage - RPackage: Remove last listeners to SystemAnnouncer #15208 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15208 - RPackage: Do not register to MethodAdded #15180 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15180 - Calypso:â¯Improve some namings on package tags #15179 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15179 - RPackage: Clean protocols management #15132 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15132 # Fluid ClassDefs / ClassBuilder - Reduce usage of category for protocol #15166 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15166 - Remove more old class creation API #15165 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15165 - Do a pass on shift after recent improvements #15187 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15187 - Deprecate ClassRenamed>>category #15186 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15186 - Simplify ChunkImportTestCase #15181 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15181 # Monticello / Metacello - Monticello: Fix loading of erroneous methods #15203 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15203 - Monticello: Fix problem in package loading logic #15207 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15207 - Monticello: Multiple MethodAddition cleanings (announce protocol changes, compile before installing, cleanup) #15172 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15172 - Metacello: Clean the way to create a class #15188 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15188 # Package Dependencies - Cut dependency from AST-Core-Tests to SystemCommands-SourceCodeCommands #15141 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15141 - Split finalization registry from WeakArray and sort dependencies #15139 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15139 - Fix cyclic dependencies between compiler and ASTs/parser and their tests #15144 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15144 - Update dependencies to Roassal and Array2D #15148 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15148 - Pusing down dependencies of Collection-Abstract #15138 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15138 - Move critics UI methods to critic UI package #15184 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15184 # Variables / Undeclared - Another pass on #usingMethods for UndeclaredVariable: filter for installed methods #15190 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15190 - SystemDictionary>>declare:from: should not be an extension #15197 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15197 # CI / Tests - tiny speedup for testNoShadowedVariablesInMethods #15173 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15173 - Guard RubAbstractTextArea>>#recomputeSelection for empty paragraphs #15140 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15140 - Improve ClassFactoryForTestCase #15185 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15185 # Cleanup - Remove #acceptsLoggingOfCompilation #15182 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15182 - Bootstrap: Remove dead code #15195 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15195 - Fix DateParser comment #15174 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15174

Nov. 6, 2023

caching proxy for domain data

by Siemen Baader

Hi, I'm looking for something to hold a cached version of a parsed domain model, typically from large HTML or CSV files on disk, parsed with XMLHTTPParser or NeoCSV. Occasionally also JSON and HTML from a web service. The files are frequently updated, so it should check for this at least on disk and reload before returning the cached model to the application. It's not really difficult to implement and I have several "satisficing" solutions implemented, but I think it ought to be a common problem so maybe there is something matured and well abstracted out there. It could even/also be a design pattern common to industry applications. Have you seen anything? cheers Siemen

Nov. 2, 2023