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Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-project] [ANN] Spotlight like morph for pharo

by Sean P. DeNigris

Guillermo Polito wrote > > ps: this is also an example of why I hate morphic so much (bah... current > dirty implementation): I had to extend two classes just to change the > editor used by a textmorph.... come on!!!! > Hee hee. That pain is very familiar... -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-project-ANN-Spotlight-like-morph-for-pharo-tp45… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 25, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

we will see. :) I did my part to avoid it. Stef > > Seems that people like to reinvent the wheel :( > Ciao > > Giorgio Ferraris > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:49 AM, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Giorgio Ferraris wrote: >> >>> Step grane, >>> >>> Did you know of the PDF4smalltalk project in vw. >> >> Yes >>> It's quite ahead and there is also a reporting infrastructure built and guys are willing to port to other dialect >> >> I mentioned that to olivier when he started but he wanted to do its own lib. >> >> ;) >> >> >

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Igor Stasenko

On 24 April 2012 18:38, Cameron Sanders <camsanders(a)aol.com> wrote: > Â Igor, & others, > > Thanks for the info/links/leads. > > To be honest, I would rather just use a toolkit than create one.Â That is not > accurate, more accurately: I would rather create the toolkit than use it ... > if I had the time.Â Unfortunately for me, I do not have the time. So, if > there is only a possibility that I can generate PDFs that meet my standards > with pango/athens/cairo, then I should probably redirect my efforts. > I will try to look what needs to be done, and if it can be done fast. > Previously I used ReportLab in Python to generate my reports. See the > following sample that was generated by code crafted back around > 2002/2003:Â http://ac.functional-analyst.com/fa-reports.php?table=2003-02-28/fa_reports…. > ReportLab allowed for simple mark-ups in the text (e.g. ... ) and > for that version of report, I wrote code that allowed me to use XMLs to > define my document components & flow ordering/control. I guess ReportLab's > new PLUS version uses XML to give one full control of the document layout. > > Of course, I want something more attractive than that sample, in this day > and age. Color, floating text & image boxes. The reports must meet the > standards of today. Perhaps something more > likeÂ http://debrispublishing.com/images/stories/Reports/2011/06-2011/ECA_2011-06…. > But going further than that, in terms of charts, color usage, footnoting the > tables, etc. See Standard & Poor's stock reports -- at that quality. The > ideal toolkit would have some nice chart making abilities so that we don't > have to invest 2 man months in creating a chart-making suite. > > These reports will be generated weekly for about 9000 companies/funds. The > process must be automated. > > Ideally the report generation would be integrated with my data processing > engine, which is in Pharo. Perhaps I will check out PDF4smalltalk. Once I > can get my software talking to my DB (soon i hope), I can push my data into > the DB and use Python or any other toolset for report generation... *if* I > cannot do it in smalltalk. > > Any leads that anyone can offer are greatly appreciated! > >> (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo >> library installed on your OS). > > > I will have to poke around and learn what NativeBoost is... and which VMs > were built with it. > Feel free to ask questions. >> The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you >> more. >> Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make >> it, for sure. > > > How dirty? You tell me. :) I don't know what extra bindings is needed to use Cairo for PDF generation. But since you started this topic, i assumed you know. We can help with making it comply with Athens protocols., so then anyone could use it as another backend. > > Thanks again for all of the responses. > > -Cam -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Giorgio Ferraris

Hi, If you have that kind of request and don't think about getting sick if looking at java :)) (after looking at pdf4smalltalk), there can be an interesting different possibility . You write reporting logic in st and write on some db table the data , then you can use jasper report for printing. There is a designer for it and you can do a small java web server for printing the generated report. If you think this can be interesting, I can eventually send you the java server and some Smalltalk code to call it. Jasper is really powerful. Look at the doc. It's open source but you can only learn the design tool, because running the report is not a big java work. I could not use pdf4smalltalk on the application i'm working on because it miss at the moment the possibility to Include colored images. I wanted to use it but no time to help people to adding that functionality. Ciao Giorgio Ferraris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Cameron Sanders <camsanders(a)aol.com> wrote: > Igor, & others, > > Thanks for the info/links/leads. > > To be honest, I would rather just use a toolkit than create one. That is not accurate, more accurately: I would rather create the toolkit than use it ... if I had the time. Unfortunately for me, I do not have the time. So, if there is only a possibility that I can generate PDFs that meet my standards with pango/athens/cairo, then I should probably redirect my efforts. > > Previously I used ReportLab in Python to generate my reports. See the following sample that was generated by code crafted back around 2002/2003: http://ac.functional-analyst.com/fa-reports.php?table=2003-02-28/fa_reports…. ReportLab allowed for simple mark-ups in the text (e.g. ... ) and for that version of report, I wrote code that allowed me to use XMLs to define my document components & flow ordering/control. I guess ReportLab's new PLUS version uses XML to give one full control of the document layout. > > Of course, I want something more attractive than that sample, in this day and age. Color, floating text & image boxes. The reports must meet the standards of today. Perhaps something more like http://debrispublishing.com/images/stories/Reports/2011/06-2011/ECA_2011-06…. But going further than that, in terms of charts, color usage, footnoting the tables, etc. See Standard & Poor's stock reports -- at that quality. The ideal toolkit would have some nice chart making abilities so that we don't have to invest 2 man months in creating a chart-making suite. > > These reports will be generated weekly for about 9000 companies/funds. The process must be automated. > > Ideally the report generation would be integrated with my data processing engine, which is in Pharo. Perhaps I will check out PDF4smalltalk. Once I can get my software talking to my DB (soon i hope), I can push my data into the DB and use Python or any other toolset for report generation... *if* I cannot do it in smalltalk. > > Any leads that anyone can offer are greatly appreciated! > > (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo > library installed on your OS). > > I will have to poke around and learn what NativeBoost is... and which VMs were built with it. > > The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you more. > Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make > it, for sure. > > How dirty? > > Thanks again for all of the responses. > > -Cam

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-project] [ANN] Spotlight like morph for pharo

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

This is actually a very cool feature, so much stuff happening, not enough time to look at and test everythingâ¦ Thx! On 24 Apr 2012, at 09:43, Guillermo Polito wrote: > Fwd :) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:53 AM > Subject: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Spotlight like morph for pharo > To: Pharo Development <pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > > > Hi, > > I want to announce a little tool I made the other day (mainly because Mariano asked for it :) > > Do you remember algernon, that tool who was working in pharo 1.1 and is now obsolete? I used it all the time, and I always missed the ability to open browsers without having to type the class name in a workspace, or open a browser first, then look for the class. > So, I created this: > > Gofer it > squeaksource: 'Spotlight'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfSpotlight'; > load. > ConfigurationOfSpotlight loadBleedingEdge. > > if you press shift+enter, you'll get a "spotlight" like morph, with a simple text input with OCompletion inside... is very simple and I think very useful. Of course it can be enhanced in a lot of ways... but let's here the community opinion first, and see if it worths to keep adding functionality.functionality. > > enjoy, > Esteban > > ps: this is also an example of why I hate morphic so much (bah... current dirty implementation): I had to extend two classes just to change the editor used by a textmorph.... come on!!!! >

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Cameron Sanders

Igor, & others, Thanks for the info/links/leads. To be honest, I would rather just use a toolkit than create one. That is not accurate, more accurately: I would rather *create* the toolkit than use it ...* if I had the time*. Unfortunately for me, I do not have the time. So, if there is *only a possibility* that I can generate PDFs that meet my standards with pango/athens/cairo, then I should probably redirect my efforts. Previously I used ReportLab in Python to generate my reports. See the following sample that was generated by code crafted back around 2002/2003: http://ac.functional-analyst.com/fa-reports.php?table=2003-02-28/fa_reports…. ReportLab allowed for simple mark-ups in the text (e.g. ... ) and for that version of report, I wrote code that allowed me to use XMLs to define my document components & flow ordering/control. I guess ReportLab's new PLUS version uses XML to give one full control of the document layout. Of course, I want something more attractive than that sample, in this day and age. Color, floating text & image boxes. The reports must meet the standards of today. Perhaps something more like http://debrispublishing.com/images/stories/Reports/2011/06-2011/ECA_2011-06…. But going further than that, in terms of charts, color usage, footnoting the tables, etc. See Standard & Poor's stock reports -- at that quality. The ideal toolkit would have some nice chart making abilities so that we don't have to invest 2 man months in creating a chart-making suite. These reports will be generated weekly for about 9000 companies/funds. The process must be automated. Ideally the report generation would be integrated with my data processing engine, which is in Pharo. Perhaps I will check out PDF4smalltalk. Once I can get my software talking to my DB (soon i hope), I can push my data into the DB and use Python or any other toolset for report generation... *if* I cannot do it in smalltalk. Any leads that anyone can offer are greatly appreciated! (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo > library installed on your OS). > I will have to poke around and learn what NativeBoost is... and which VMs were built with it. The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you more. > Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make > it, for sure. > How dirty? Thanks again for all of the responses. -Cam

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] [Esug-list] GSoC news: we have 13 projects!

by Bert Freudenberg

Excellent! Thank you so much, Janko, Carla, mentors, students, and ESUG :) - Bert - On 24.04.2012, at 05:10, Janko MivÅ¡ek wrote: > Dear Smalltalkers! > > We have 13 GSoC projects and let we welcome to all students whose > proposals were accepted: > > 1. Santiago Bragagnolo > Concrete Type Inference -- Call graph > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/type-inference > 2. Lars Wassermann > ARM jitter for Squeak VM > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/arm-jitter > 3. Facundo Mainere > Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/interactive-tutorial > 4. Benjamin Van Ryseghem > Nautilus > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/nautilus > 5. MartÃn Dias > Package management with Fuel > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/fuel-packages > 6. Guillermo Polito > Bootstrapping the core-Hazelnut > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/hazelnut > 7. Pablo Estefo > TestSurgeon > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/testsurgeon > 8. Daniel Uber > SciSmalltalk > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/sci-smalltalk > 9. Rustem Khubbatov > HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/mmi-amber > 10. Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer > Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/rizel > 11. Saurav Bhattacharya > Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/excel-export > 12. Steve Granda > Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/etoys-sugar > 13. Paul Kuzovkin > Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/esse > > 5 students from Argentina, 2 from Chile, 2 from Russia, 1 from Sweden, > France, USA and let we specially welcome our first Indian student! > > Now a Community bonding period started, when students get to know > mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their > projects. Until 21.May when coding begin. > > Good luck to everyone! > > Janko @ Carla > > > -- > Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team > http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Davorin Rusevljan

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Giorgio Ferraris <giorgio.ferraris(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Seems that people like to reinvent the wheel :( > Ciao and pdf is quite a big wheel if I may say. Like the ones used on bigfoot cars. Davorin Rusevljan http://www.cloud208.com/

April 24, 2012

GSoC news: we have 13 projects!

by Janko MivÅ¡ek

Dear Smalltalkers! We have 13 GSoC projects and let we welcome to all students whose proposals were accepted: 1. Santiago Bragagnolo Concrete Type Inference -- Call graph http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/type-inference 2. Lars Wassermann ARM jitter for Squeak VM http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/arm-jitter 3. Facundo Mainere Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/interactive-tutorial 4. Benjamin Van Ryseghem Nautilus http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/nautilus 5. MartÃn Dias Package management with Fuel http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/fuel-packages 6. Guillermo Polito Bootstrapping the core-Hazelnut http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/hazelnut 7. Pablo Estefo TestSurgeon http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/testsurgeon 8. Daniel Uber SciSmalltalk http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/sci-smalltalk 9. Rustem Khubbatov HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/mmi-amber 10. Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/rizel 11. Saurav Bhattacharya Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/excel-export 12. Steve Granda Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/etoys-sugar 13. Paul Kuzovkin Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/esse 5 students from Argentina, 2 from Chile, 2 from Russia, 1 from Sweden, France, USA and let we specially welcome our first Indian student! Now a Community bonding period started, when students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects. Until 21.May when coding begin. Good luck to everyone! Janko @ Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

April 24, 2012

Re: [Pharo-users] Cairo

by Giorgio Ferraris

Seems that people like to reinvent the wheel :( Ciao Giorgio Ferraris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:49 AM, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Giorgio Ferraris wrote: > >> Step grane, >> >> Did you know of the PDF4smalltalk project in vw. > > Yes >> It's quite ahead and there is also a reporting infrastructure built and guys are willing to port to other dialect > > I mentioned that to olivier when he started but he wanted to do its own lib. > > ;) > >

April 24, 2012