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Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar and GT tools in Pharo4

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 06.03.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)stfx.eu>: > > >> On 06 Mar 2015, at 09:21, Torsten Bergmann <astares(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Pharo is on the right track... > > Yes, and it is very impressive what you did, but please guys, write/blog (more) about this, help others (me) understand how all this works and fits together. The goal is that everybody should be able to do this, but that will require massive evangelisation (again & again), on a moving target. +1 (yes, it's a reminder for me, too) Norbert

March 6, 2015

[ANN AthensSketch] A playground for drawings with Athens.

by Nicolai Hess

The main purpose of this packages is to ease the creation of simple drawings and provide a rich set of examples for Athens drawing API. -------------- Gofer new smalltalkhubUser: 'NicolaiHess' project: 'AthensSketch'; configuration; load. ConfigurationOfAthensSketch loadDevelopment. AthensSketchBrowser open. ----------------- This is a simple playground for Athens drawings. Just subclass AthensSketch and define your own sketch drawing in the #drawStepOn: method. It provides basic frame based animation (play/pause/stop). Open a player with ASketchExampleColors openPlayer', or a simple viewer morph with ASketchExampleColors openView (start and stop rendering from the morph menu) The AthensSketchBrowser lists all defined AthensSketch subclasses. (Basic examples from package AthensSketch and some more examples from package ASketchExamples). You can step through the list of examples, start and stop the drawing, or view and edit the drawing code. It is great that we have now a vector based drawing API. The (old) Canvas API is already great for pixel based drawings. A rich API and many good things if you discover it. And Athens is a addition that can increase our possibilities. There were some questions about Athens, what it is and what it is used for, maybe this helps. nicolai

March 6, 2015

files.pharo.org now cached close to you

by Marcus Denker

Hi, Yesterday we have set up a caching infrastructure for http://files.pharo.org This means that files that are requested multiple times from your location will be served from a server close to you. There are e.g. servers in Chile, Argentine, Brazil, Dallas, LA, Franfurt, Paris, Hongkong, Sydneyâ¦. This will cost us around $1-2 per day. This is not a lot but more that someone (e.g. me) could spend from their own pocket. As such, this is only possible due to the funds of the Pharo Association: http://association.pharo.org Thanks a lot to all the members! If you like this and want to support things like this, please consider joining the association! fMarcus

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC mentor assistance for FOSSASIA smalltalk projects please

by Martin BÃ¤hr

Excerpts from S Krish's message of 2015-03-06 08:26:53 +0100: > Create a file editor and asset manager solution with smalltalk > > I would be interested in assisting in this project. Harks me back to what I > attempted with VisualWorks and SimpleWeb Framework I created more than a > decade back with complete editor / projects IDE that had artifacts covering > all that is mentioned as also config for external interfaces like DB. indeed, i haven't even got that far in my webdevelopment, but yes, managing external connections would be a great addition. let's see what the students are capable of. > But tough challenge if we are to talk of creating a capable color editor > with intellisense across various artifacts, otherwise doable as a student > project. don't need to go that far. i'd be happy if we can edit text and otherwise update binary files from an external source. please sign up for the fossasia list. see the instructions in my previous reply to Sean. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin BÃ¤hr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar and GT tools in Pharo4

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

> On 06 Mar 2015, at 09:21, Torsten Bergmann <astares(a)gmx.de> wrote: > > Pharo is on the right track... Yes, and it is very impressive what you did, but please guys, write/blog (more) about this, help others (me) understand how all this works and fits together. The goal is that everybody should be able to do this, but that will require massive evangelisation (again & again), on a moving target.

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar and GT tools in Pharo4

by Torsten Bergmann

Hi Doru, >Great job. Was very simple to do in one evening, thanks to GT tools. I like infrastructure that empowers us and the only thing I can lament on so far is that "Workspace" menue still opens a "Playground" and I do give not up the hope that you get convinced that this is confusing to people ;) Â >Some feedback about the extensions: >Â >- I saw that you figured out the new feature of searching with spotter from the inspector without any public announcement. Did you figure >it out from the code of GT or by seeing an example? In any case, very nice :). By accident. I first implemented an own Spotter model and a custom action in the inspector for PRDocumentItems to open it. Then I've noticed there is another icon to click on in the inspector beside mine - and as id did the same (open Spotter) I was able to remove a lot of code again. Would have been nice to know earlier - but thats life when living on the latest Pharo 4 updates and getting things solved quickly. Â >- use "composite pharoPlayground" only when you want syntax highlighting and code completion for Pharo code. Otherwise, use >"composite text" Ahh, I see. It's fixed now Â >you get extensions for working with files. See here: >http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/writing-pillar-books-with-the-gtinspe… I've seen that, but it did not really work. When I load (in 4.0#40537) PetitParser from MetaRepoForPharo30 using config browser, then the GT-InspectorExtensions-Pillar package and look by inspecting "FileSystem workingDirectory" onto a *.pillar file I can see the new tab "Pillar" - but it does not highlight the syntax. >- now that the inspector and spotter are part of Pharo, we can move these extensions directly into Pillar.Â >The only problem is that this syntax highlighting is based on PetitParser, so we would have to add a dependency from Pillar to >PetitParser. What do you think? Would make sense - the dependency to PetitParse could be set for "Pillar-Pharo-Tools" so it is not loaded if one does not use the tool extensions. No time to look into this, although it would be nice to get the syntax highlighting in and it would be better to place this into Pillar itself instead of GT. Â Please keep up the good work. Spotter already allows other nice things as easily building custom helpers for developing or own applications. See the attached screenshot: I already use a custom spotter to combine development commands, browse domain objects, Mongo collections - easily done with a few methods and pragmas. Pharo is on the right track... Bye T.

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC mentor assistance for FOSSASIA smalltalk projects please

by S Krish

Create a file editor and asset manager solution with smalltalk I would be interested in assisting in this project. Harks me back to what I attempted with VisualWorks and SimpleWeb Framework I created more than a decade back with complete editor / projects IDE that had artifacts covering all that is mentioned as also config for external interfaces like DB. But tough challenge if we are to talk of creating a capable color editor with intellisense across various artifacts, otherwise doable as a student project. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Martin BÃ¤hr < mbaehr(a)email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > hi, > > FOSSASIA has been accepted for Google Summer of Code, and i have a few > smalltalk related projects in there, see > http://labs.fossasia.org/ideas.html > > i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects. > since i am new to smalltalk myself it would be good to have some backup by > someone more experienced. > > mentoring a student as a team i am sure is a lot more fun, and should make > it > easier to get the student motivated to join the pharo community and > contribute > to pharo. > > greetings, martin. > > -- > eKita - the online platform for your entire academic > life > -- > chief engineer > eKita.co > pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net > societyserver.org > secretary > beijinglug.org > mentor > fossasia.org > foresight developer foresightlinux.org > realss.com > unix sysadmin > Martin BÃ¤hr working in china > http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ > >

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar and GT tools in Pharo4

by Tudor Girba

Hi Torsten, Great job. Some feedback about the extensions: - I saw that you figured out the new feature of searching with spotter from the inspector without any public announcement. Did you figure it out from the code of GT or by seeing an example? In any case, very nice :). - use "composite pharoPlayground" only when you want syntax highlighting and code completion for Pharo code. Otherwise, use "composite text" - in: Gofer new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-Pillar'; load you get extensions for working with files. See here: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/writing-pillar-books-with-the-gtinspe… - it also includes a basic syntax highlighting in FileReference>>gtInspectorPillarIn:, and in Class>>gtInspectorPillarCommentIn:. - now that the inspector and spotter are part of Pharo, we can move these extensions directly into Pillar. The only problem is that this syntax highlighting is based on PetitParser, so we would have to add a dependency from Pillar to PetitParser. What do you think? Cheers, Doru On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Pillar config is updated and now available in config browser in Pharo 4: > > - more classes are commented > - new baseline 0.20-baseline with version 0.20 for Pharo 4.0 > - includes Pillar-Pharo-Tools package instead of (deprecated) > Pillar-PharoInspector as EyeInspector is a thing of the past > to now support GTInspector and GTSpotter with icons in Pharo 4 > - additionally I wanted to update to STON 0.10 but had to step back to > 0.9 of STON > until Sven makes the config available in SS3 and STHub > > So if you are on Pharo 4 you can: > > 1. Load "Pillar" from Config browser > 2. Parse and inspect pillar document like this > > (PRDocumentParser parse: '%This is a commented line > |C1|C2 > |C3|C4 > > Some text > > # list item 1 > # list item 2 > ') inspect > > The GT inspector allows you to browse the different formats like Pillar, > HTML, Markdown, Text and LaTeX. > If you click on the lightbulb Spotter at the top right of the GT inspector > a new spotter will open > allow you to search in the current document item. > > You can use spotter to dive into the document structure. > > Attached is a screenshot. > > Bye > T. -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC mentor assistance for FOSSASIA smalltalk projects please

by Martin BÃ¤hr

Excerpts from Sean P. DeNigris's message of 2015-03-06 05:15:23 +0100: > Martin BÃ¤hr wrote > > i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects. > > I can probably help you with "Offline text search" (my preference) or > possibly "file editor and asset manager". wonderful! offline text search is the more interesting project of the two for me as well. at the moment though it is just answering generic questions about how to get started with pharo. we'll see next month which projects will be accepted. > Two questions: > 1) Text Search mentions "in a specified directory on the mobile device", but > the rest of the description sounded like a desktop app. Which is it? Mobile > would add quite another dimension. Maybe a web app could be doable, but IMHO > a native mobile app is probably outside the scope of a GSoC project. whoops! that is a copy paste error. for exactly the reason you mention i have a separate project to just make a mobile app with the same specs. (i'd love if it could be done in smalltalk, but that's not going to work yet) i fixed the description. thanks for catching that! > 2) File Editor talks about editing assets, the list of which includes > images. Do you expect to be able to edit images from within Pharo, or did > that apply to the text-based assets (which most were)? General image editing > within Pharo would be really cool, but sounds like a big job... i am fine if just text editing works. image "editing" could be solved by just making it easy to load a new image. i'd appreciate if you could join the fossasia(a)googlegroups.com list http://groups.google.com/group/fossasia and help answer the students initial replies. which is basically: download pharo, look at tutorials, start reading pharo by example and look for spec questions on the list. for the editor project i also have http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/training/ where i show how to store a static website in an image, and the basic idea is to make that editable, and also add a control panel for the server, similar to the one for seaside. this would make a nice add-on package for zinc. so far most students are interested in the search application... next week i am off for the FOSSASIA conference in singapore, (where i'll give a workshop about building a REST api with Zinc-REST) so i'll have little time to check email. if you could help especially in that time, i'd really appreciate it. after the conference students will start to make proposals and in april we'll decide which roposals to accept. things should be more quiet then. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin BÃ¤hr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/

March 6, 2015

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC mentor assistance for FOSSASIA smalltalk projects please

by Sean P. DeNigris

Martin BÃ¤hr wrote > FOSSASIA has been accepted for Google Summer of Code, and i have a few > smalltalk related projects Awesome!! Martin BÃ¤hr wrote > i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects. I can probably help you with "Offline text search" (my preference) or possibly "file editor and asset manager". Two questions: 1) Text Search mentions "in a specified directory on the mobile device", but the rest of the description sounded like a desktop app. Which is it? Mobile would add quite another dimension. Maybe a web app could be doable, but IMHO a native mobile app is probably outside the scope of a GSoC project. 2) File Editor talks about editing assets, the list of which includes images. Do you expect to be able to edit images from within Pharo, or did that apply to the text-based assets (which most were)? General image editing within Pharo would be really cool, but sounds like a big job... ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/GSoC-mentor-assistance-for-FOSSASIA-smalltalk-project… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

March 6, 2015